Databases on Jake Worth

The Power of CRUD Operations Explained with SQL

Thu, 12 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000

CRUD is an acronym that’s used a lot in web and mobile development. Frontend engineers in particular might wonder what it means and why we use it. In this post, I’ll explain CRUD using PostgreSQL, and talk about why it’s important.

Database Migration Checklist

Mon, 11 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000

I think a great database migration is: correct, atomic, reversible, consistent with the style of the application, and (mostly) uncoupled from your application and RDBMS.

PostgreSQL Polymorphism

Mon, 30 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Scenario: you need a database record that can belong to one record or another, but not both. Polymorphism and exclusivity. One approach is to create a polymorphic-style association at the data layer. By doing so, you’ll get data integrity built in, rather than trusting it will be enforced by each tenant at the application layer.

My psql Config

Tue, 12 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0000

RC files, thought to stand for “run command” files, are read by a program during startup. The file that configures the PostgreSQL REPL psql is called .psqlrc. In this post I’ll share my personal psql configuration.

How to Read Postgres Docs

Mon, 21 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Have you ever tried to read the documentation for a Postgres command? Although many consider Postgres’ docs best-in-class, they include conventions that might challenge newbies. In this post, I’ll paraphrase Postgres’ conventions page to help us understand what the documentation for a command is saying.

Reset an Ecto Heroku Postgres Database

Sat, 07 Jan 2017 00:00:00 +0000

We introduced some breaking database changes to our Phoenix port of Today I Learned on Friday; today I deployed them to staging. Resetting an Ecto Heroku database, with new seed data, turned out to be a little tricky, and I wanted to document what I learned.