This is how SQL should have been used all along. They called it The Third Manifesto, ORDBMS, or other things. Regrettably, it never really took off. Because most vendors didn't adopt it. And those who did, didn't agree on syntax. But this is about to change. Thanks to the now ubiquitous SQL/JSON support (which jOOQ … Continue reading jOOQ 3.15’s New Multiset Operator Will Change How You Think About SQL
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How to Write Multiset Conditions With Oracle VARRAY Types
Oracle is one of the few databases that implements the SQL standard ORDBMS extensions, which essentially allow for nested collections. Other databases that have these features to some extent are CUBRID, Informix, PostgreSQL. Oracle has two types of nested collections: -- Nested tables CREATE TYPE t1 AS TABLE OF VARCHAR2(10); / -- Varrays CREATE TYPE … Continue reading How to Write Multiset Conditions With Oracle VARRAY Types
5 Things You May Not Have Known About jOOQ
jOOQ has been around for a while now (since 2009!) and by now we can say we've seen quite a bit of things about the SQL and Java languages. Some of our design decisions are particular in the way jOOQ thinks about programming with SQL. These include: Nullability (let's stop fighting it) Value types (let's … Continue reading 5 Things You May Not Have Known About jOOQ