Things read about Database

Read on Friday, May 14, 2010
- Cassandra - A Decentralized Structured Storage System
  Extensive paper on Cassandra and how Facebook uses it.
  Visit -read, cassandra, database, facebook
Read on Wednesday, May 12, 2010
- Cassandra @ Twitter: An Interview with Ryan King
  Great interview about Twitters plans to use Cassandra. Featuring questions like, Why?, How?, etc. Very good read.
  Visit architecture, cassandra, database, deployment, development, interview, performance, sql, twitter
Read on Thursday, June 18, 2009
- South
  Intelligent schema migrations for Django apps.
  Visit -tweet, database, development, django, migration, orm, programming, python, sql, tool, web
Read on Thursday, June 4, 2009
- Modelling the Data Warehouse using the UML
  Great overview.
  Visit -tweet, database, datawarehouse, uml
Read on Friday, May 29, 2009
- Azure Services Platform
  Interesting Cloud-approach by Microsoft. Heard a great presentation on it.
  Visit api, cloudcomputing, database, development, microsoft, programming, software, technology, web, web2.0
Read on Tuesday, May 5, 2009
- django-multidb
  Simple exmample of using Django to work with multiple databases.
  Visit api, database, django, orm
Read on Thursday, April 30, 2009
- MySQL: LOAD DATA INFILE
  The LOAD DATA INFILE statement reads rows from a text file into a table at a very high speed. The file name must be given as a literal string.
  Visit csv, database, mysql, reference, sql
Read on Thursday, April 23, 2009
- django-reversion
  Reversion is an extension to the Django web framework that provides comprehensive version control facilities.
  Visit database, development, django, history, middleware, python, versioning
Read on Tuesday, February 17, 2009
- Talend Open Source Data Integration
  Talend ist der erste Anbieter einer Open Source Datenintegrationssoftware welche durch das Open Source Modell eine Lösung für jegliche Form der Datenintegration darstellt. Dabei spielen Unternehmensgröße und Unternehmensart genauso wenig eine Rolle wie Budgetbeschränkungen oder der vorhandene technische Kenntnisstand. Talend's Lösungen verbinden alle Quell- und Zielsysteme und kann kostenlos heruntergeladen werden. Talend bietet ebenfalls Datenqualitätslösungen an, um seine Datenintegrationslösungen zu ergänzen.
  Visit business, database, design, integration, migration, opensource, software, tool
Read on Monday, December 8, 2008
- django-orm-cache
  This project is an attempt to provide a low-level, somewhat magical, approach to handling row-level object caches.
  Visit cache, database, django, orm, performance
Read on Wednesday, October 29, 2008
- django-db-log
  Exception Logging to a Database in Django
  Visit database, debug, django, logging
Read on Monday, October 13, 2008
- Django model cron jobs
  Inspired by snippet 1126, I thought I would post a module that stores crontab entries in a database, with a less powerful, but more end-user friendly API.
  Visit cron, cronjob, database, django, snippet
Read on Friday, August 15, 2008
- GenericForeignKeys with less queries
  When working with generic relations in Django you have to be quite careful not to end up with n+1 queries for a simple fetch of n elements.
  Visit contenttypes, database, django, generic, optimization, performance, select_related
Read on Sunday, July 6, 2008
- Django performance tips
  Explanation of how to optimize performance of a django application. (Here is written that PostgreSQL is better than MySQL...)
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Read on Tuesday, July 1, 2008
- MySQL vs. PostgreSQL (PG half wins)
  Visit benchmark, database, mysql, postgresql
- MySQL versus PostgreSQL (PG wins)
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Read on Tuesday, June 3, 2008
- Template tag to dump database query info
  The {%dbinfo%} tag returns a string with the # of database queries and aggregate DB time. The {%dbquerylist%} tag expands to a set of LI elements containing the actual SQL queries executed.
  Visit database, django, tag
Read on Friday, May 30, 2008
- TIP Convert latin1 to UTF-8 in MySQL
  Since MySQL 4.1, UTF-8 is the default charset. If you have an old database, containing data encoded in latin1, and you want upgrade to a newer MySQL server, than you have to do the following.
  Visit convert, database, latin1, mysql, utf8
Read on Thursday, May 29, 2008
- Multiple Database Support
  add support for multiple database connections
  Visit database, django, multiple
Read on Tuesday, May 6, 2008
- django-evolution
  ``./models.py syncdb`` doesn't track changes in a model, it just checks for new models to be added to the database. Django Evolution enables django to write model changes into the database.
  Visit alter, database, django, sql, syncdb

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