CIO

An interview with Jim Starkey, database legend and inventor of both the ‘BLOB’ data type and triggers, taking a look at the history of BLOB and also how it relates to modern NoSQL (and what he doesn’t like about NoSQL).

GunDB

“Gun is a persisted distributed cache, part of a NoDB movement. [..] Think of it as ‘Dropbox for Databases’.” The discussion on Hacker News is also interesting.

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Mahmoud Al-Qudsi

A look at some hashing-based approaches to not using databases in situations where they might otherwise be used.

InfoQ

Eric Redmond explains the differences and commonalities amongst many kinds of databases and takes a stab at the marketing term ‘NoSQL.’ A 50 minute talk.

Paul A Jungwirth

“Lateral joins can be incredibly useful when you need them, but it’s hard to grok their ‘shape’ without a concrete example.”

Graham Jenson

A quick tutorial on how to set up Postgres, Elasticsearch, and Redis as Docker containers using Boot2Docker on Mac OS X.

Dwain Camps

Even if you’re not using SQL Server 2012, it’s interesting to see how to model the calculation of bowling scores in SQL.