Using Stored Procedures With JPA, JDBC. Meh, Just Use jOOQ

The current edition of the Java magazine has an article about Big Data Best Practices for JDBC and JPA by…

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Correlated Subqueries are Evil and Slow. Or are They?

A common myth in SQL is the idea that correlated subqueries are evil and slow. For example, this query here:…

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JSR-308 and the Checker Framework Add Even More Typesafety to jOOQ 3.9

Java 8 introduced JSR-308, which added new annotation capabilities to the Java language. Most importantly: Type annotations. It is now…

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10 SQL Tricks That You Didn’t Think Were Possible

Listicles like these do work – not only do they attract attention, if the content is also valuable (and in…

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The Parameterless Generic Method Antipattern

A very interesting question was posted to Stack Overflow and reddit just recently about Java generics. Consider the following method:…

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jOOQ Tuesdays: Ming-Yee Iu Gives Insight into Language Integrated Querying

Welcome to the jOOQ Tuesdays series. In this series, we’ll publish an article on the third Tuesday every other month…

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10 Features I Wish Java Would Steal From the Kotlin Language

This article is overdue. After the hype around the release of Kotlin 1.0 has settled, let’s have a serious look…

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Watch Out For Recursion in Java 8’s [Primitive]Stream.iterate()

An interesting question by Tagir Valeev on Stack Overflow has recently caught my attention. To keep things short (read the…

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Time for some Funky SQL: Prefix Sum Calculation

This Stack Overflow question has yet again nerd-sniped me: [finding the] maximum element in the array that would result from…

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