Using the right data type for some calculation sounds like some obvious advice. There are many blogs about using temporal data types for temporal data, instead of strings. An obvious reason is data integrity and correctness. We don't gain much in storing dates as 2019-09-10 in one record, and as Nov 10, 2019 in the … Continue reading Oracle’s BINARY_DOUBLE Can Be Much Faster Than NUMBER
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PostgreSQL’s Best-Kept Secret, and how to Use it with jOOQ
PostgreSQL has a lot of secret data types. In recent times, PostgreSQL's JSON and JSONB support was hyped as being the NoSQL on SQL secret (e.g. as advertised by ToroDB) that allows you to get the best out of both worlds. But there are many other useful data types, among which the range type. How … Continue reading PostgreSQL’s Best-Kept Secret, and how to Use it with jOOQ