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| | I've been reading Alex Petrov's Database Internals to learn more about how databases are implemented. One of the topics covered in the book is a data structure known as the B-tree. Relational databases like Postgres, MySQL, and sqlite use B-trees as the data structure for storing the data on disk. I was reading along with...
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| | How Relational Databases Work. This post talks about how indexes and transactions work on the inside of relational databases.
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| | Many software engineers use database indexes every day, but few of us really understand how they work. In this post I'll explain: How indexing works in Postgres using B-Trees What B-Trees are Why they are a good fit for this problem Indexes in Postgres Postgres actually offers 4 different kinds of indexes for different use cases. In this post I'll be focusing on the "normal" index, the kind you get by default when you run create index.
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| How to best handle SQL logic in Golang applications for migrations and queries