by Bill Karwin · December 29, 2010

The hype of 2010 was clearly NoSQL.

by Bill Karwin · September 23, 2010

Experiments that question our conventions can help us understand those conventions better.

by Bill Karwin · September 20, 2010

MySQL and PostgreSQL make promising new releases.

by Bill Karwin · August 18, 2010

Martin Rusev is developing a new database query library for PHP 5. The project shows promise, but it has some distance to go before it competes with other available libraries.

by Bill Karwin · June 25, 2010

Ralph Schindler has started the ball rolling on requirements for Zend Db for Zend Framework 2.0.  He announced on the ZF Contributors mailing list:   Requirements have been solicited from both community members in various conversations, as well as looking through the issue tracker for feature requests that have been on the backlog due to [...]

by Bill Karwin · May 5, 2010

PostgreSQL has roughly one-quarter of the market share of MySQL, and I’d guess that PHP projects favor MySQL even more. But PostgreSQL deserves some love from the PHP community too. PostgreSQL is open source with a simpler license that’s closer to PHP’s license. As RDBMS technology, PostgreSQL has always been more advanced than MySQL. Don’t you wish MySQL supported check constraints? Sequences? Recursive queries, common table expressions, and window functions?

by Bill Karwin · April 28, 2010

Of course it’s desirable to write concise code, but don’t assume this always equates to fast code.

by Bill Karwin · March 17, 2010

MySQL, the popular SQL database, has announced a new release of their Community Server edition. This is version 5.1.45.