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Is SQL inefficient since it has to parse through everything?
As you know SQL doesn't have arrays. So if you make a table "article" and wish to have comments on your articles I presume you would make another table "comment". Inside "comment" table you have the ...
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Database constraints for a recursive folders structure
In an application, I have a recursive folder structure (like folders in OS X or Windows file system).
Each folder can contain three kind of things:
Other folders (hence the recursive structure)
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Do common relational database systems work 'out of the box'? [closed]
I'm quite new to software development and whenever I come across small projects which involve storing (relational) data I always ask myself if something like a micro-blog (or any other project with ...
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SQL - for some attributes specific to different clients' users, how to handle schema?
I have clients, each of whom have an app with a bunch of users.
Their user data could be pretty different, but there is also a lot of overlap. Ex: all their users have "gender" and "age" and plenty ...
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What is the "correct" way to store functions in a database?
Note: Yes, I know that storing functions in databases should be punishable by law.
We are developing a financial web application using PostgreSQL, Sinatra and AngularJS. As you may have guessed, a ...
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Established coding standards for pl/pgsql code
I need to standardize coding practices for project that compromises, among others, of pl/pgsql database, that has some amount of nontrivial code.
I look for:
Code formatting guidelines, especially ...
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