I use semicolons everywhere because I spend as much time in PostgreSQL as I do MS SQL.  In PostgreSQL the semicolon to terminate statements is required everywhere there is more...

Well, when I was a kid....

This topic reminds me of week 1 of Calculus when we were forced to solve derivatives by hand.  After hours of painful calculations,...

I've worked with PostgreSQL, MS SQL and MySQL.  My experience with MySQL ended 3 or 4 years ago; at that time I did convert a couple smallish databases over to...

Regarding data persistence, it's common to use the `-v` flag when running Docker containers.  This attaches a volume to the container at a specific location.  Putting data files in a...

I have no experience with using MS SQL Server in containers, but I have used PostgreSQL in containers using Docker for nearly two years now.  I wrote a post about...

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Being Free is part of why I love Linux, but it isn't the whole story.  The low overhead for system resources is a major draw, especially as a small start-up...

Ah, thanks, I was thinking of rows, not columns. I see what you're saying and that does seem like an odd thing to do.

I'll mark that as something...