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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 …

Nike is synonymous with the "Just Do It" ad campaign. Some people think "Dolt" is "DoIt", "Do It" with the space removed. Notice there is no difference in some fonts, like the one we use for this blog. No one …

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 mo…

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 reaso…

Struggling with a crippling addiction to YAML? You aren't alone. We can help.

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 for…

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 an…

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 D…

An introduction to using the dolt_ignore configuration table to prevent staging tables that ought not to be staged.

Initial release of the dolt_schema_conflicts table.

Considerations, and recommendations for connecting to a database with branches

How to use AWS remotes with Dolt CLI and sql-server

Rename our database! MulletDB? DataRebase? OurSQL? MarxDB? Choose your fighter.

In 2021, a US executive order forced hospitals to publish all their insurance-negotiated rates in machine readable files. We think this data should be public, so we're crowdsourcing a single, fully open, MySQL…

Dolt is the world's first version controlled SQL database. How would you build a version controlled SQL database? This article will start with some of the high level requirements, explain some possible arch…

Hosted DoltDB is for running online, production Dolt databases. Since we launched Hosted last year, we've been adding new features to offer a streamlined user experience and easy access to Dolt's powerful d…

Dolt is a SQL database with MySQL’s syntax and Git’s versioning semantics. Dolt is run as a service, and when things go wrong we prefer SQL errors to crashed servers. This was the basic premise behind B…

A customer was struggling with how to use standard ORM tools, like SQLAlchemy, to access Dolt time travel features across schema changes. One specific problem area is that combining app ORM/schema tools wit…

Dolt is a full featured SQL database which supports Git-like version control features, including branch, diff, merge, clone, push and pull. It's wire protocol and supported SQL dialect are based on MySQL. …