Martin Fowler So ORMs help us deal with a very real problem for most enterprise applications. It’s true they are often misused, and sometimes the underlying problem can be avoided. They aren’t pretty tools, but then the problem they tackle isn’t exactly cuddly either. I think they deserve a little more respect and a lot [...]
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Preface: Developers Need to Index
Another excellent write up by Markus Winand It turns out that the only thing developers need to know is how indexes work. Database indexing is, in fact, a development task. That is because the most important information for proper indexing is not the storage system configuration or the hardware setup. The most important information for [...]
Use The Index, Luke
Use The Index, Luke by Markus Winand Preface: SQL Indexing Matters Performance problems are as old as SQL itself. There are even opinions that say that SQL is inherently giving poor performance. Although it might have been true in the early days of SQL, it is definitely not true anymore. Nevertheless SQL performance problems are [...]