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So you want an AI Database?
Here at DoltHub, we built the world's first version-controlled SQL database: Dolt. What do version control and databases have to do with Artificial Intelligence (AI)? It turns out, a lot. At first, we were skeptical about the AI revolution, but then...
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Costing Index Scans
Dolt is the first version controlled SQL database. We have made many correctness and performance improvements over the last couple of years. But one of the things we have never been good at are queries that need to adapt to underlying table data. We ...
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Getting stack traces for errors in Go
Techniques and libraries for getting stack traces for your errors in Go
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Building Single Sign-On for your Web Application
We recently released single sign-on (SSO) for two of our web products, Hosted Dolt and DoltLab Enterprise. Administrators can configure an Identity Provider (IdP), where their users can authenticate and authorize access to their organization (Hosted)...
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Sensible User Privileges and Dolt Procedures
Keeping your version controlled data safe just got easier
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Announcing DoltgreSQL
We are pleased to announce that we have started development on DoltgreSQL! Dolt has grown significantly over the past few years, however it uses MySQL's syntax. Many users have asked us if we would support PostgreSQL's syntax, and we are finally deve...
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Announcing DoltLab Enterprise Edition
We launched DoltLab, the self-hosted version of DoltHub.com back in January 2022 as a way to support users who wanted to harness the power of Dolt, but not push their data to the public internet. From that point on, we've consistently improved DoltL...
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AUTO_INCREMENT vs UUID Primary Keys
Dolt is the first and only version controlled SQL database. Dolt supports branches, merges, and clones. Astute Dolt users have long noticed that Dolt branches and clones do not play well with AUTO_INCREMENT primary keys. The Dolt recommended alternat...
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Getting Started: Dolt with Docker
For a long time, Dolt resisted Docker. Here at DoltHub, we take a lot of pride in the fact that Dolt is a single program with no external dependencies. To use Dolt, you simply download the current build for your operating system, put the directory yo...
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Transactions in Dolt? Hold My Beer
Dolt is a drop in replacement for MySQL, but beware because transactions behave differently
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They're called Slices because they have Sharp Edges: Even More Go Pitfalls
On my last Golang post, I suggested that the main source of confusion in Golang is the fact that the language presents itself as a C-like object oriented language, and dresses itself in C-like syntax, while differing from C-like languages in surprisi...
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Recovering Dropped Databases with dolt_undrop()
The new dolt_undrop() stored procedure allows you to easily restore dropped databases
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Pull Request Diff Comments
After you open a pull request in a database, users can comment on the comparison of table cells between the two specified branches.
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A bug in MySQL, or working as intended? You decide
Fixing a bug in Dolt that MySQL still has and will not fix
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Four 9's of Correctness
sqllogictests is a collection of around 6 million sql correctness tests, designed to be used a as benchmark for SQL engine implementations. Although sqllogictests was made by the sqlite team, it can check for compatibility with several different SQL ...
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How to Use Lateral Joins
Dolt is the first SQL database that versions data with Git semantics. Using Dolt is as easy as downloading the binary, picking a directory for your data (mydb), running dolt sql-server, and using a MySQL client to connect mysql -h 0.0.0.0 -u root. T...
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Announcing: Scheduled Events
Dolt now supports creating and executing MySQL Scheduled Events.
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