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I stumbled upon a very interesting question on Stack Overflow about how to use jOOQ’s MULTISET operator to nest a collection, and then filter the result by whether that nested collection contains a value. The question is jOOQ specific, but imagine, you have a query that nests collections using JSON ...

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Find out what recurring transactions are and how you can collect them.

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Find out about mobile commerce and how it can help your business.

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Read our guide to payment reminder SMS templates.

It’s been a while since jOOQ 3.15 has been released with its revolutionary standard SQL MULTISET emulation feature. A thing that has been long overdue and which I promised on twitter a few times is to run a few benchmarks comparing the performance of various approaches to nesting to-many relationshi...

I am not a front end engineer – but I'm on a project right now with heavy front end requirements. This blog post documents how I got Font Awesome running on by application including the brands extension. It is by no means a great way to do it and I know: I have more overhead than needed I did not ta...

Ever since studying and working with databases 6 months ago, I've become fascinated with SQL and its relatively simple syntax. As a guide to the reader, I've gathered the essential criteria that emplo... The post Intro to SQL for the New Grad Developer appeared first on The Polyglot Developer.

I'm actively engaged in greenfield development once again and I'm learning / relearning things that I likely have known in the past. I don't know if this is a known issue, a bug or maybe a design choice. Either way, I found it useful to know this so I thought it was useful to document it. I spend a ...

Ever since studying and working with databases 6 months ago, I’ve become fascinated with SQL and its relatively simple syntax. As a guide to the reader, I’ve gathered the essential criteria that employers expect you to know when applying for a database-related job. In this blog, I will cover what SQ...

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Delve into the top fintech technology trends and fintech banking trends of 2022.

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