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This week in the Database Programmer we look at something called an "UPSERT", the strange trick where an insert command may magically convert itself into an update if a row already exists with the provided key. This trick is very useful in a variety of cases. This week we will (more...)

If you look at any system that was born on and for the internet, like Ruby on Rails, or the PHP language, you find an immense wealth of resources on the internet itself, in endless product web sites, blogs, and forums. But when you look for the same comprehensive information (more...)

This week we are returning to the series on Philosophy, and we will nail down the role of data and the database in any application that requires such things.

This is the Database Programmer blog, for anybody who wants practical advice on database use.

There are links to other essays (more...)

This week I am taking a bit of a departure. Normally I write about things I have already done, but this week I want to speculate a bit on a security model I am thinking of coding up. Basically I have been asking myself how to create a security model (more...)

No it does not. If it did, then your customer/employer would be doing something no other human being has ever done, which is unlikely in the extreme. The application may be unique in its particulars, but it is almost certainly extremely common in its patterns. This week we will see (more...)