https://blog.pjam.me/tags/sql/Recent content in Sql on Occasionally consistentHugoenFri, 13 Jan 2023 14:01:26 -0500https://blog.pjam.me/posts/active-record-statement-cache/Sat, 11 Dec 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://blog.pjam.me/posts/active-record-statement-cache/Active Record caches generated queries, when using <code>find_by</code> and <code>find</code>https://blog.pjam.me/posts/atomic-operations-in-sql/Tue, 27 Jun 2017 15:07:38 -0400https://blog.pjam.me/posts/atomic-operations-in-sql/<p><img src="https://blog.pjam.me/images/atomic.jpg" alt="A zipper with red &amp; blue sides"></p> <h5 id="previously-published-on-mediumhttpsmediumcomharrys-engineeringatomic-increment-decrement-operations-in-sql-and-fun-with-locks-f7b124d37873">Previously published on <a href="https://medium.com/harrys-engineering/atomic-increment-decrement-operations-in-sql-and-fun-with-locks-f7b124d37873">Medium</a></h5> <p>We recently rewrote our inventory management system and managed to improve the performance while reducing the operational complexity by taking advantage of native SQL increment &amp; decrement operations. In this post we’ll dive into the details and common gotchas of these operations and we’ll compare our new implementation with the previous one to highlight the benefits.</p>https://blog.pjam.me/posts/mysql-utf8/Sat, 17 Aug 2013 15:07:47 -0400https://blog.pjam.me/posts/mysql-utf8/The limitation of MySQL&rsquo;s default utf8 encoding and how to use a better one