SELECT STAR

EP 10: What makes a good relationship? Primary keys!


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A cornerstone of relational databases are primary keys. We need handles on our rows of data.

On this episode of SELECT STAR, find out what makes for a good primary key, especially in a distributed environment like CockroachDB!

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About our hosts:

Greg L. Turnquist worked on the Spring team for over thirteen years before joining Cockroach Labs as a technical content engineer. He was the lead developer for Spring Data JPA, Spring Web Services, and a committer to multiple Spring portfolio projects. He wrote Packt's best-selling title, Learning Spring Boot 2.0 2nd Edition, and its 3rd Edition follow-up, along with many others including 12 Rules for Pro Coders. He co-founded the Nashville Java User Group in 2010 and hasn't met a query (yet) that he can't speed up.

Felipe Gutierrez worked as a Spring and RabbitMQ Advocate and Consultant for over 25+ years before joining Cockroach Labs. He also worked as a Technical Instructor, developing and teaching Spring Boot, Spring Core, Spring Cloud, RabbitMQ, and Cloud Foundry. He wrote Pro Spring Boot, Spring Boot Messaging, and Pro Spring Cloud Data Flow for Apress. Recently, the 3rd version of Pro Spring Boot for Java and Kotlin was released.

About Cockroach Labs:

Cockroach Labs is a pioneering software company at the forefront of database technology, dedicated to delivering resilient and scalable database solutions to run mission-critical workloads for the world's most important businesses. With a mission to scale when others fail, Cockroach Labs is revolutionizing the way businesses manage their data with its innovative cloud-native distributed SQL database, CockroachDB.

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