SQL LATERAL JOIN – A Beginner’s Guide
Introduction In this article, we are going to see how the SQL LATERAL JOIN 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. A LATERAL JOIN can be used either explicitly, as we will see in this article, or implicitly as it’s the case for the MySQL JSON_TABLE function.
Percona PMM – A beginner’s guide
Introduction This article is a beginner’s guide for the Percona Monitoring and Management (PMM), a tool that’s very handy when it comes to analyzing a given database system. PMM was released in 2016, and initially, it was available for MySQL. However, since 2018, it supports monitoring PostgreSQL as well, so once you learn it you can use it with the two most popular open-source relational database systems.
Mapping Java Records to JSON columns using Hibernate
Introduction In this article, I’m going to explain how we can map Java Records to JSON columns when using Hibernate. Because Hibernate ORM does not offer built-in support for JSON, we are going to use the Hypersistence Utils library, which allows you to map entity attributes to JSON column types, no matter if you are using Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, or MySQL.
PostgreSQL audit logging using triggers
Introduction In this article, we are going to see how we can implement an audit logging mechanism using PostgreSQL database triggers to store the CDC (Change Data Capture) records. Thanks to JSON column types, we can store the row state in a single column, therefore not needing to add a new column in the audit log table every time a new column is being added to the source database table.
