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Primary keys should be neither surrogate nor natural.
https://modern-sql.com/de/blog/2026-06/strukturierte-primaerschluessel#per-parent-sequences
New post:
Structured Primary Keys
For consistency and performance.
#duckdb ist eines der elegantesten Stücke Software-Design der letzten Jahre. In-Process, kein zusätzlicher Server, sehr performant. Die Analyse läuft dort, wo dein Code läuft: #python #go #java #Node #rust oder direkt im #cli.
Das Elegante daran ist die Vektorisierung. Wer große Datenmengen lokal analysieren will, sollte sich DuckDB unbedingt mal anschauen.
The SQL/JSON Path item-method .keyvalue() has an interesting history in the Oracle Database.
https://modern-sql.com/caniuse/keyvalue-json-path
In 23.26.2 it works, but not in ?( filter ) context.
MariaDB 12.3.2 was released last week.
It is the first "stable" version of the long-term supported (LTS = 3 years) 12.3 branch.
An SQL dialect enhancement is the IS JSON predicate. Also: a bug I reported is fixed (MDEV-38835).
All charts on modern-sql.com are updated.
If anyone had told me in 1984, when I stumbled over a software called dBASE II, that knowledge about query languages (started learning SQL three o four years later) would still prove to be a valuable skill over 40 years later, I would have laughed at this person.
SQL's ORDER BY Has Come a Long Way
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