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Database Design Book released!
137-page PDF, €32. See table of contents and sample chapters.
Apr 21, 2025
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Common SQL queries through a non-1NF lens
For the past few months I’ve been working on “A modern guide to SQL JOINs” and some other book-related content.
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Documenting your data: WordPress case study, pt. 1
240 tables and no documentation: making sense of your database
Oct 1, 2025
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Virtual 6NF
Decomposing any database into minimal elements
Aug 8, 2025
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Multi-join queries design: investigation
From the ground up: studying multi-join queries.
Jun 9, 2025
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Systematic design of multi-join GROUP BY queries
I wrote a long-ish (5000+ words) tutorial on systematic design of complex analytical SQL queries.
May 25, 2025
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Relational modeling challenge
"Make invalid states unrepresentable" and the relational model
Feb 2, 2025
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Looking for some podcast collaboration opportunities
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