Lorenzo Alberton
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AJAX, Apache, Book Review, Charset, Cheat Sheet, Data structures, Database, Firebird SQL, Hadoop, Imagick, INFORMATION_SCHEMA, JavaScript, Kafka, Linux, Message Queues, mod_rewrite, Monitoring, MySQL, NoSQL, Oracle, PDO, PEAR, Performance, PHP, PostgreSQL, Profiling, Scalability, Security, SPL, SQL Server, SQLite, Testing, Tutorial, TYPO3, Windows, Zend FrameworkPHP 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
Speaking at the PHP Barcelona conference 2009
Speaking at the PHP Barcelona Conference 2009. Talk: "Trees in the Database: Advanced Data Structures". Read article
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
Trees in the database: It sure ain't no CouchDB!
Wrap-up of the Dutch PHP Conference, Amsterdam, 11-13 June 2009. Read article
Speaking at the Dutch PHP Conference 2009
Speaking at the Dutch PHP Conference 2009. Talk: "Trees in the Database: Advanced Data Structures". Read article
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
Extracting META information from SQL Server (INFORMATION_SCHEMA)
How to retrieve META information from Microsoft SQL Server, using the INFORMATION_SCHEMA, with system tables (sysobjects, sysindexkeys, sysindexes, syscolumns, systypes, etc) and/or with system stored procedures (T-SQL). Read article