Things DBs Don't Do—But Should

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Gwen Shapira. "Things DBs Don't Do—But Should." thenile.dev, February 2023. Archived at perma.cc/C3J4-JSFW

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Things DBs Don't Do - But Should

In this blog, I'll point out functionality that is very often needed in data platforms and more likely than not, you will need to build yourself since your DB won’t handle it for you. Even though it really should.

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