Anybody who’s worked on a data warehouse knows the date dimension is key. Designing it is complex and filling it might be tricky and time consuming. In this article I simply share SQL scripts I came up with to fill the date dimension in a PostgreSQL data warehouse. Continue reading Scripts to populate the date dimension in a PostgreSQL data warehouse
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Why JSON fields shouldn’t be used in relational databases
What do PostgreSQL 9.2, Oracle 12c and MySQL 5.7.8 have in common? They all integrated JSON as a possible data type. Pretty cool, huh?! Actually, I think using JSON in a relational database is one of the worst ideas you can have. Let me explain why.
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