Writing tests that use an actual database is hard. Period. Now that this has been established, let's have a look at a blog post by Marco Behler, in which he elaborates on various options when testing database code, with respect to transactionality. Testing database transactions is even harder than just testing database code. Marco lists … Continue reading Stop Unit Testing Database Code
Month: June 2014
Flyway and jOOQ for Unbeatable SQL Development Productivity
When performing database migrations, we at Data Geekery recommend using jOOQ with Flyway - Database Migrations Made Easy. In this post, we're going to look into a simple way to get started with the two frameworks. Philosophy There are a variety of ways how jOOQ and Flyway could interact with each other in various development … Continue reading Flyway and jOOQ for Unbeatable SQL Development Productivity
Should I Put That Table Alias or Not?
Infrequent SQL developers often get confused about when to put parentheses and/or aliases on derived tables. There has been this recent Reddit discussion about the subject, where user Elmhurstlol was wondering why they needed to provide an alias to the derived table (the subselect with the UNION) in the following query: SELECT AVG(price) AS AVG_PRICE … Continue reading Should I Put That Table Alias or Not?
SQL Server ALTER TABLE SET DEFAULT
Most databases that support default values on their column DDL, it is also possible to actually alter that default. An Oracle example: CREATE TABLE t ( val NUMBER(7) DEFAULT 1 NOT NULL ); -- Oops, wrong default, let us change it ALTER TABLE t MODIFY val DEFAULT -1; -- Now that is better Unfortunately, this … Continue reading SQL Server ALTER TABLE SET DEFAULT
What Big Data Really Is
One for the weekend: Big Data https://twitter.com/superpixels/status/479665690698592256
Java 8 Friday: The Best Java 8 Resources – Your Weekend is Booked
At Data Geekery, we love Java. And as we're really into jOOQ's fluent API and query DSL, we're absolutely thrilled about what Java 8 will bring to our ecosystem. Every Friday, we're showing you a couple of nice new tutorial-style Java 8 features, which take advantage of lambda expressions, method references, default methods, the Streams … Continue reading Java 8 Friday: The Best Java 8 Resources – Your Weekend is Booked
jOOQ Newsletter: June 18, 2014 – jOOQ goes JavaOne™
jOOQ Goes JavaOne™ We're super excited to announce that our CEO and Head of R&D Lukas will be heading to San Francisco this fall to talk about jOOQ at JavaOne™! This is not just great for Data Geekery and jOOQ, but also for the whole Java / SQL ecosystem, as we believe that the Java / SQL … Continue reading jOOQ Newsletter: June 18, 2014 – jOOQ goes JavaOne™
Conference Legal Disclaimers
After deep consideration with our lawyers, we would like to follow suit with Oracle and provide you with the following legal disclaimer about our jOOQ-related conference talks, as presented at the awesome GeekOut conference in Tallinn. Please do read them and take them seriously.
Java 8 Friday: 10 Subtle Mistakes When Using the Streams API
At Data Geekery, we love Java. And as we're really into jOOQ's fluent API and query DSL, we're absolutely thrilled about what Java 8 will bring to our ecosystem. Java 8 Friday Every Friday, we're showing you a couple of nice new tutorial-style Java 8 features, which take advantage of lambda expressions, extension methods, and … Continue reading Java 8 Friday: 10 Subtle Mistakes When Using the Streams API
Stop Trying to Emulate SQL OFFSET Pagination with Your In-House DB Framework!
I'm pretty sure you've gotten it wrong in numerous ways, so far. And you probably won't get it right any time soon. So why waste your precious time on SQL tweaking, when you could be implementing business logic? Let me explain... It hasn't been until the recent SQL:2008 standard that what MySQL users know as … Continue reading Stop Trying to Emulate SQL OFFSET Pagination with Your In-House DB Framework!