Postgres and Open Source Experts

Using Simpycity is as easy as its name suggests - quick, easy. Simple. In keeping with that philosophy, Simpycity offers 3 constructs for database access: Function, Query, and Raw. At a glance, each name describes the type of access it offers: Function providing access through stored procedures, Query constructing a simple SQL query from your arguments, and Raw, which allows you to write your own SQL query directly. We will …

With everyone and their mothers trying to build the next awesome website and next amazing web service, you'll probably find that SQL databases are getting more and more popular. As it turns out though, writing complex software on databases is harder than it looks.

Hard enough that database abstractions are growing in popularity, pushing "database agnosticism" and turning the database into a dumb, interchangable data store. As a database developer, …

There are many reasons and needs to implement a tree structure inside of an SQL database. In our particular example today, we're using a basic knowledge base tree as an example of a small- to large-scale tree inside of an SQL database. Additionally, any sort of directory/file system layout would be a good match for these concepts. I am going to discuss three basic concepts on dealing with small, medium, …