Eight years of blogging
Eight years and counting! It was September 2013, and I had always wanted to start a blog but had never found the motivation to do it. If you keep on waiting for the right time to do something, that day might never come. Either you start right away, or you just keep on lying to yourself.
SQL Recursive WITH CTE queries
Introduction In this article, we are going to see how SQL Recursive WITH CTE (Common Table Expression) queries work and how we can apply them for processing hierarchical data models.
JPA Bulk Update and Delete with Blaze Persistence
Introduction In this article, I’m going to show you how to write JPA Bulk Update and Delete queries using the amazing Blaze Persistence framework. Blaze Persistence is a JPA framework that allows you to build Criteria queries that are much more powerful than the standard JPA Criteria API. More, it also provides support for Keyset Pagination, which is very useful when having to navigate over large result sets.
SQL CROSS APPLY – A Beginner’s Guide
Introduction In this article, we are going to see how the SQL CROSS APPLY works and how we can use it to cross-reference rows from a subquery with rows in the outer table and build compound result sets. CROSS APPLY is basically equivalent to the LATERAL JOIN, and it’s been supported by SQL Server since version 2005 and Oracle since version 12c.
