MySQL is one of the most widely used relational databases in the world — and almost every backend engineering interview, whether at a startup or a large product company, will test your SQL ...

A Python CLI for transferring SQLite 3 schema and data to MySQL or MariaDB. sqlite3mysql reads the source schema from SQLite, creates equivalent MySQL/MariaDB tables, indexes, foreign keys, and views ...

Why is the language developers and DBAs use to organize data such a mess? Here are 13 reasons we wish we could quit SQL, even though we probably won't. For all its popularity and success, SQL is a ...

Our previous blog article, “The Part of PostgreSQL We Hate the Most,” discussed the problems caused by everyone’s favorite street-strength DBMS multi-version concurrency control (MVCC) implementation.

We are less than one month into 2023 and already have a new release of Azure Data Studio to share—introducing 1.41! With this release, we migrated to a new authentication library, made improvements ...

innodb-java-reader is a java implementation to access MySQL InnoDB storage engine file directly. With the library or command-line tool, it provides read-only features like examining pages, looking up ...

I remember that a number of times, developers have approached me with the question – How do I auto increment a default value in a table column? These were mostly folks who had worked in the MS SQL, ...

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Jack Wallen explains how to add data into a MySQL table from the command line. So you’re new to MySQL database administration. You’ve probably already installed ...

I recently published a tutorial describing the different available methods to store data locally in an Android app. However, due to article length constraints, I could not adequately cover creating ...