- REFERENCE11 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 versi...
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- GOLANG9 min read
Coming Soon: Golang 1.21 🚀
Go 1.21RC2 is out and there's a bunch of small, but helpful new features and changes that are worth learning
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How to Run DoltLab on Hosted Dolt
In June of this year we released DoltLab v1.0.0 which uses Dolt as its default application database instead of PostgreSQL, providing out-of-the-box, version-controlled data for all of our DoltLab customers. Today, I'll cover how you can supercharge ...
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CSV Support for the Hosted Dolt Workbench
The Hosted Dolt SQL workbench now supports CSV file uploads and exporting SQL query results as a CSV.
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How to use our hospital price database
I'm staring down 400M rows of hospital prices that, to my knowledge, haven't been seen before by the public. At least not all in one place, and definitely not by someone like me, who's more used to avoiding medical bills than trying to make sense of ...
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Transferring Data In and Out of Air-Gapped Networks
Explains what an air gapped network is, where they are generally deployed, and some tools to make managing the software and data inside them easier
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Dolt Vs MySQL Vs Postgres
Dolt was originally designed as a standalone CLI tool for supporting distributed asynchronous data sharing with the same primitives as Git. But we are now a database company. We still support data sharing with Git semantics but increasingly in a clie...
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So you want Slowly Changing Dimension?
Understand slowly changing dimension definitions, methods, and tools. Outlines the business benefits of using slowly changing dimension for database versioning. Introduces Dolt, the first SQL database with built in slowly changing dimension.
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Automatic Dolt Commits with @@dolt_transaction_commit
The `@@dolt_transaction_commit` system variable turns all SQL commits into Dolt commits, enabling you to have a versioned history of your data without having to explicitly call dolt_commit().
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Initializing Large Static Maps in Go
Runtime costs and strategies for static initialization in Go
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Running a Production Database
The database is the heart of most applications. It's where the data that drives your web applications lives. It's where your users' data is stored. The data in your database may be used in countless ways such as analytics, machine learning, and repor...
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The Future of the Dolt Command Line Interface
Dolt's Command Line Interface is being modernized to integrate better with our SQL Server. A little history, and a plan for the future.
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MySQL Triggers: How and why with examples
In this tutorial, learn how to define triggers in MySQL and what they're good for, with examples
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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 functionality....
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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 transitioned DoltHub...
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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 features that...
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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, added ...
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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 statement at a pa...
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Writing and debugging integration tests of multiple processes with Golang
How to launch multiple Golang binaries from a test and attach your debugger to them
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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. Our t...
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