Now THIS is an interesting, and challenging question on the jOOQ user group: https://groups.google.com/d/topic/jooq-user/6TBBLYt9eR8/discussion Say you have a big database with lots of tables and foreign key references. Now you would like to know all tables that are somehow inter-connected by their respective foreign key relationship "paths". You could call this a "convex hull" around … Continue reading Serious SQL: A “convex hull” of “correlated tables”
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When will we have LINQ in Java?
LINQ is one of Microsoft's .NET Framework's most distinct language features. When it was first introduced to languages such as C#, it required heavy changes to the language specification. Yet, this addition was extremely powerful and probably unequalled by other languages / platforms, such as Java, Scala, etc. Granted, Scala has integrated XML in a similar fashion into … Continue reading When will we have LINQ in Java?
Database Abstraction and SQL Injection
I have subscribed to various user groups of jOOQ's competing database abstraction tools. One of which is ActiveJDBC, a Java implementation of Active Record design pattern. Its maintainer Igor Polevoy recently claimed that: SQL injection is a web application problem, and not directly related to an ORM. ActiveJDBC will process any SQL that is passed to it. … Continue reading Database Abstraction and SQL Injection
“NoSQL” should be called “SQL with alternative storage models”
Time and again, you'll find blog posts like this one here telling you the same "truths" about SQL vs. NoSQL: http://onewebsql.com/blog/no-sql-do-i-really-need-it (OneWebSQL being a competitor of jOOQ, see a previous article for a comparison) Usually, those blogs aim for the same arguments being: Performance ("SQL" can "never" scale as much as "NoSQL") ACID (you don't … Continue reading “NoSQL” should be called “SQL with alternative storage models”
Array, list, set, map, tuple, record literals in Java
Occasionally, when I'm thrilled by the power and expressiveness of JavaScript, I find myself missing one or two features in the Java world. Apart from lambda expressions / closures or whatever you want to call "anonymous functions", it's the use of advanced literals for common data types, such as arrays, lists, sets, maps, etc. In … Continue reading Array, list, set, map, tuple, record literals in Java