- REFERENCE9 min read
So you want Database Versioning?
Here at DoltHub, we've had a lot of success with our "So you want..." series of blog posts helping people find Dolt when they are looking for it. Dolt is a lot of things. Dolt is a version controlled database, a Git database, Git for data, data…
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MySQL Triggers: How to use them, what they're good for, and examples
MySQL allows you to define triggers on your tables that will do additional work or validation every time data in the table is changed. This tutorial will teach you how to use triggers and give you some ideas about what they're good for.
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Better JSON Support
In case you haven't heard, we're now Dolt 1.0 !. However, we're not finished. In this blog, we'll go over some recent improvements to Dolt's JSON handling. Additionally, I'll go through some examples of JSON handling to showcase the new functiona
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Announcing DoltLab v1.0.0, now backed by Dolt
In early May we announced Dolt v1.0.0 , the first stable release of Dolt, signaling that Dolt is ready for production use. Shortly thereafter we revealed that DoltHub.com now runs on Dolt. In my previous blog post I explain how we transitio
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Replicating Unexpected Behavior
I'm an engineer at DoltHub , and for the past month, I've been working on matching Dolt 's regular expression capabilities with MySQL. This is important for us, as Dolt is a drop-in replacement for MySQL, that gives you all the versioning
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Hosted DoltDB Launches Replicas
Dolt is Git for Data. It's a MySQL compatible database with Git-style versioning and branching built in. We launched hosted dolt a little over a year ago and since then we've released additional metrics, improved logs, created a sql workbench
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Introducing Dolt Events
Dolt is a version-controlled relational database that supports MySQL features. Today, we are excited to announce that we are adding support for MySQL Events . These are tasks that run on a specific schedule, such as executing a query statemen
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Writing and debugging integration tests of multiple processes with Golang
This article discusses the technical details of writing integration tests that manage multiple sub-processes in Golang, including attaching debuggers to the new processes. It's part of our our technical Golang blog series. We publish a new article
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Community-built hospital price database hits 400 hospitals
Hospital price data is pretty damn tedious to collect . There thousands of different formats for these files, which by and large contain the same kind of data, just phrased differently. That makes it expensive to buy and time consuming to make.
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C to WASM to Go
Sometimes, the most complicated solution may end up being the simplest. This sounds like a contradiction, but it depends on where a project's priorities lay. I'm an engineer here at DoltHub , and about 9 months ago I implemented collation su
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Using DoltHub as a Remote for Hosted Dolt
We have two web products for Dolt : DoltHub and Hosted Dolt . DoltHub is GitHub for Dolt and Hosted is AWS RDS for Dolt. Each product has different use cases depending on your goals, but there are also reasons to use DoltHub and Hos
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Your config file should be a database
In my pre-startup life I worked at Google, a company that has some pretty incredible, internal-only technology that you won't find anywhere else. An entire engineering culture has developed around the availability of these technologies, and it's…
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DoltHub on Hosted Dolt
For the past few months at DoltHub , we've been really excited about the release of Dolt 1.0 . If you missed it, it dropped last Friday May 5th. Dolt 1.0 is the first stable release of Dolt and guarantees forward storage compatibility, produ
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Making Nautobot work with Dolt, again
Dolt is a MySQL-compatible database that allows branching, diffing, and merging database changes. In this blog post, we will discuss how Dolt is being used with a network automation solution called Nautobot and the recent fixes we've had to ma
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Getting Started: Hosted Dolt
There are a bunch of ways to get started with Dolt , the word's first and only version controlled database . You can run Dolt locally as a version controlled database or as Git for Data . You can start using Dolt by sharing data on Do
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Using dolt_ignore to Prevent Accidents
Dolt is a MySQL compatible database with Git-style version control. Think of it as Git for Data : Git versions files, and Dolt versions tables. In its typical use case, users commit changes to the database, and in git-like fashion, those com
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Three-Way Merges in Dolt: Modeling Schema Conflicts
Dolt is the world's first and only version-controlled SQL database. Its powerful branch and merge model is exposed through a familiar Git-style interface. In fact, Dolt's connection to Git goes beyond interface compatibility. At the storage laye
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Connecting to a Database With Branches
Dolt is a MySQL compatible database with Git-style version control. This means that you can branch, merge, and diff your data just like you would with code. These are powerful features, but they can be confusing to users who aren't used to workin
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Working with AWS Remotes
Almost two years ago, my colleague Brian blogged about how to use Dolt with different types of supported remotes . The most accessible type of Dolt remote is a database on DoltHub , but, as outlined in that previous blog, there are a number of
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