Free as in Beer has caused Heartbleed (and Much More)

Heartbleed is a bit over one month old now. A bug significant enough to have its own Wikipedia page. Today,…

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Java 8 Friday: API Designers, be Careful

At Data Geekery, we love Java. And as we’re really into jOOQ’s fluent API and query DSL, we’re absolutely thrilled…

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SQL Server Trick: Circumvent Missing ORDER BY Clause

SQL Server is known to have a very strict interpretation of the SQL standard. For instance, the following expressions or…

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The Index You’ve Added is Useless. Why?

Recently, at the office: Bob: I’ve looked into that slow query you’ve told me about yesterday, Alice. I’ve added the…

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Java 8 Friday: Language Design is Subtle

At Data Geekery, we love Java. And as we’re really into jOOQ’s fluent API and query DSL, we’re absolutely thrilled…

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How to Implement Sort Indirection in SQL

I’ve recently stumbled upon this interesting Stack Overflow question, where the user essentially wanted to ensure that resulting records are…

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Three-State Booleans in Java

Every now and then, I miss SQL’s three-valued BOOLEAN semantics in Java. In SQL, we have: TRUE FALSE UNKNOWN (also…

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Java 8 Friday: Let’s Deprecate Those Legacy Libs

At Data Geekery, we love Java. And as we’re really into jOOQ’s fluent API and query DSL, we’re absolutely thrilled…

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NoSQL? No, SQL! – How to Calculate Running Totals

If anything at all, our jOOQ talks at various JUGs and conferences have revealed mostly one thing: Java developers don’t…

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