It appears that our recent beginner SQL articles explaining SQL syntax were quite popular. These include: A Beginner’s Guide to the True Order of SQL Operations A Probably Incomplete, Comprehensive Guide to the Many Different Ways to JOIN Tables in SQL 10 Easy Steps to a Complete Understanding of SQL How SQL DISTINCT and ORDER … Continue reading 5 Ways…
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3 Mar 2020
13 Apr 2015
Syntax is one of those topics. One of those emotional topics that lead to very very very important discussions. I personally like PL/SQL. It is extremely verbose, and precise. It forces you to adhere to a very strong and rigid type system, slowing you down, which is likely to help you avoid mistakes. There is … Continue reading It’s the…
24 Feb 2014
Java 7 has eased some pain in the area of exception handling when the new try-with-resources and multi-catch syntaxes were introduced. The latter is very interesting from a syntax perspective because it is the only place in Java where formal union types are allowed, similar to what Ceylon offers. Remember, a union type A | … Continue reading Feature Request…