Published at: 09:04 am - Sunday April 08 2012
One of the powers of RDBMS as we use them today are constraints. I use unique indexes, not null constraints and foreign keys on a regular basis and if you do any work with RDBMSs you probably do as well. From time to time one comes at a point where you think “it would be [...]
Published at: 06:03 pm - Sunday March 25 2012
One of the powers of RDBMS as we use them today are constraints. I use unique indexes, not null constraints and foreign keys on a regular basis and if you do any work with RDBMSs you probably do as well. From time to time one comes at a point where you think “it would be [...]
Published at: 06:06 am - Sunday June 27 2010
One of my standard questions I ask when interviewing a candidate with some database or SQL know how is: Assume you have a fairly complex select statement operating on some serious tables (tens of millions of rows). The customer complains the SQL statement is to slow. What options would you consider for tuning such a [...]