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PHP UK 2010: RDBMS in the social networks age

Wrapup of the PHP UK Conference 2010. Uploaded slides of my talk "RDBMS in the social networks age" about graphs in the database.   Read article

27 February 2010

Speaking at the PHP Barcelona conference 2009

Speaking at the PHP Barcelona Conference 2009. Talk: "Trees in the Database: Advanced Data Structures".   Read article

26 October 2009

New article: Graphs in the database, SQL meets social networks

Graphs in the database: how to store a graph data structure in a DBMS, and answer the most common queries typical of social networks, like "You might also know" or "You might also like", or "How you are connected to XYZ" (degrees of separation).   Read article

7 September 2009

Graphs in the database: SQL meets social networks

How to store a graph data structure in a DBMS, and query it to solve many of the problems of social networks.   Read article

7 September 2009
27 June 2009

Speaking at the Dutch PHP Conference 2009

Speaking at the Dutch PHP Conference 2009. Talk: "Trees in the Database: Advanced Data Structures".   Read article

10 April 2009

Updated articles to extract META informations from databases

By popular request, I've updated my articles explaining how to retrieve meta data from your DBMS (Firebird SQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server). Have fun.   Read article

9 September 2008

Extracting META information from Interbase/Firebird SQL (INFORMATION_SCHEMA)

Extracting META informations from Interbase/Firebird System Tables (INFORMATION_SCHEMA)   Read article

13 November 2007

Firebird 2 cheat sheet

Cheat sheet for the upcoming Firebird 2. A handy reference of the FB2 datatypes, an useful query reference and a list of the PHP Firebird/Interbase functions.   Read article

6 November 2006

DBMS and charsets, a summary and a call for help

Some clarification about charset settings for the various DBMS (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Firebird/Interbase, Oracle, Sqlite) and a call for help for charset setting support in PEAR::MDB2.   Read article

28 September 2006