Posts marked with “database”
Using a framework? Why you should still learn OO and SQL
If you’ve only ever used a framework to do data-driven or object-oriented programming, you might not know as much as you think. Read why it’s important to learn object-oriented programming and SQL…even if your framework does all the heavy lifting for you.
Apache CouchDB hits 0.11.0, drops "alpha" and "beta"
The popular document-oriented database hits version 0.11.0, and this time shows up without “alpha” or “beta” status.
Impel, the Javascript ORM
Impel is an object-relational mapper for JavaScript. If the association of these two terms seems strange, bear with me (and with HTML5) for a moment.
MySQL Community Server 5.1.45 announced
MySQL, the popular SQL database, has announced a new release of their Community Server edition. This is version 5.1.45.
The state of MongoDB, March 2010
Eliot Horowitz and the rest of the core MongoDB Team released a post on the project blog addressing current and future development of the project. The team has released two stable releases — 1.0 and 1.2 — and has a third, version 1.4, coming that contains “better concurrency, geospatial indexing, ‘usability’ enhancements and speed enhancements, to name a few.”
Microsoft schedules upcoming SQL Server service packs
Despite Microsoft SQL Server 2008 having been out for some time, Microsoft is still planning on providing extended support—through 2011—to the 2005 edition of its flagship DBMS.


