I can't stand opening the Microsoft Store. It's slow to load, confusing to browse, and full of ads for things I don't care about. Luckily, thanks to a new feature, I don't have to open the Microsoft ...

Microsoft is testing a new version of the Run command window (summoned by pressing Win + R simultaneously) in Windows 11. The new version is based on Microsoft’s Fluent Design ethos, which infuses ...

FireQuery is a library that enables you to run SQL commands (PostgreSQL-style) on Cloud Firestore using familiar syntax such as SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE. It offers partial support for JOIN, ...

SQL (Structured Query Language) is a powerful programming language that allows you to interact with databases and perform various operations such as creating, querying, updating, and deleting data. In ...

The df command provides information on file system usage, but includes quite a few options. This post examines the differences and makes some suggestions about when you should use which of the two ...

Thanks to the technology behind ChatGPT, it’s become surprisingly simple to query a data set in plain English. As with most generative AI, results from OpenAI’s API are still imperfect, which means ...

Part of the SQL Server 2022 blog series. In SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Edition, backup compression was introduced adding WITH COMPRESSION as an option in the T-SQL backup command. SQL Server backup ...

One of our biggest challenges as software developers is organizing our code so that it is easier to extend and maintain. The Command pattern helps us do that by encapsulating all the data required to ...

Shared object files streamline programs by providing information applications need to do their jobs, but that don’t have to be part of the application itself. To find out which of these files a Linux ...

This library wraps the database connection into a proxy object. It proxies all method calls to it except select() and selectOne(). Once a SELECT statement is executed through the aforementioned ...