SELECT STAR

Don't use SELECT *. That's the rule of thumb you may have heard once, maybe a million times. But we all know...rules of thumb work until they don't.

So what, exactly, is it about SELECT * that probably spells doom if you use it in your production queries? Find out on this episode of SELECT STAR!

Want to take CockroachDB for a spin? Then check out https://university.cockroachlabs.com/ and get started!

✅ Learn about Greg's experience in data

Greg L. Turnquist worked on the Spring team for over thirteen years before he joined 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 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.

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.

© 2025 Cockroach Labs, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Is your database growing beyond your wildest expectations?
Buried in crazy requests? Tables 10x bigger than you imagined?

On this episode of SELECT STAR, find out why it might be time to move to a distributed database.

🎓 Try CockroachDB for yourself:
👉 university.cockroachlabs.com

📺 Learn about Greg’s journey in data:
👉 Greg on SELECT STAR

About the Hosts:
Greg L. Turnquist – Former Spring team member, author of Learning Spring Boot, 12 Rules for Pro Coders, and more. Now a technical content engineer at Cockroach Labs.

Felipe Gutierrez – Veteran consultant and instructor. Author of Pro Spring Boot, Spring Boot Messaging, and Pro Spring Cloud Data Flow. Now helping devs master distributed systems at Cockroach Labs.

About Cockroach Labs:
Cockroach Labs builds CockroachDB, the cloud-native, distributed SQL database designed to help you scale when others fail.

© 2025 Cockroach Labs, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

You've joined data before. It's what we do every time we need to fetch data spread across two or more tables.

But what happens in a DISTRIBUTED environment?

On this episode of SELECT STAR, learn what happens under the covers on the database you just can't kill. HOT TIP: It's NOT what you think!

Want to take CockroachDB for a spin? Then check out https://university.cockroachlabs.com/ and get started!

Greg L. Turnquist worked on the Spring team for over thirteen years before he joined 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 Spring and RabbitMQ Advocate and Consultant for over 25+ years before joining Cockroach Labs. Worked also as 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.

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.

© 2025 Cockroach Labs, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

You've probably heard of an index. Maybe you know a couple other ways to speed up a query.

But what if there was ANOTHER way to make your queries speed up by orders of magnitude?

On this episode of SELECT STAR, learn how this tried-and-true tactic can help you speed up even the thorniest of queries!

Want to take CockroachDB for a spin? Then check out https://university.cockroachlabs.com/ for FREE and get started!

Greg L. Turnquist worked on the Spring team for over thirteen years before he joined 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 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.

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.

© 2025 Cockroach Labs, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

We all use relational databases because we NEED them. That's why it's sometimes REALLY HARD to write the correct query...and ALSO have it perform.

On this episode of SELECT STAR, learn how writing the query right AND having it perform is CRITICAL in a distributed environment!

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Want to take CockroachDB for a spin? Then check out Cockroach Unversity for FREE and get started!

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About our hosts:

Greg L. Turnquist worked on the Spring team for over thirteen years before he joined 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 Spring and RabbitMQ Advocate and Consultant for over 25+ years before joining Cockroach Labs. Worked also as 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.

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.

© 2025 Cockroach Labs, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

What happens to your database that you just can't kill when you suffer a regional failure?

On this episode of SELECT STAR, learn how CockroachDB puts you in control of dealing with an AZ failure or even a regional failure before it happens!

Want to take CockroachDB for a spin? Then check out https://university.cockroachlabs.com/ for FREE and get started!

About our hosts:
Greg L. Turnquist worked on the Spring team for over thirteen years before he joined 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 Spring and RabbitMQ Advocate and Consultant for over 25+ years before joining Cockroach Labs. Worked also as 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.

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.

© 2025 Cockroach Labs, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Do you work with .NET and need an entity management toolkit? Then ADO.NET is for you!

On this episode of SELECT STAR, find out how easy it is to pick up ADO.NET and tie in with CockroachDB, the database you just can't kill.

Want to take CockroachDB for a spin? Then check out https://university.cockroachlabs.com/ for FREE and get started!

Greg L. Turnquist worked on the Spring team for over thirteen years before he joined 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 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.

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.

© 2025 Cockroach Labs, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

A LOT of the people using CockroachDB started elsewhere but ultimately came to the database you just can't kill because there was NO OTHER CHOICE.

On this episode of SELECT STAR, learn some of the most valuable tips when it comes to migrating to the database you just can't kill as we deep dive with Cockroach's Technical Evangelist, Rob Reid.

And maybe—just maybe—we'll dig into other topics as well!

Want to take CockroachDB for a spin? Then check out https://university.cockroachlabs.com/ for FREE and get started!

Greg L. Turnquist worked on the Spring team for over thirteen years before he joined 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 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.

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.

© 2025 Cockroach Labs, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

With all this Java action, are you feeling left behind? Really love using the .NET platform to build awesome apps? Your time has come!

On this episode of SELECT STAR, see how to leverage CockroachDB from within your .NET/C# app and see how to build an app on top of the database you just can't kill!

Want to take CockroachDB for a spin? Then check out https://university.cockroachlabs.com/ for FREE and get started!

Greg L. Turnquist worked on the Spring team for over thirteen years before he joined 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 Spring and RabbitMQ Advocate and Consultant for over 25+ years before joining Cockroach Labs. Worked also as 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.

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.

© 2025 Cockroach Labs

Looking to create a REST API with Go and CockroachDB? This is the right place to be.

On this episode of SELECT STAR, we use Go to connect to CockroachDB and create a simple REST API with the Gin Web Framework and the GORM ORM Library for Go.

Want to take CockroachDB for a spin? Check out https://university.cockroachlabs.com/ for FREE and get started!

Get more 👀

• Go Lang
• Gin Web Framework
• GORM ORM Library

About our hosts:

Greg L. Turnquist worked on the Spring team for over thirteen years before he joined 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. Most recently, the 3rd edition of Pro Spring Boot for Java and Kotlin.

About Cockroach Labs:

Cockroach Labs is a pioneering software company at the forefront of database technology, delivering resilient and scalable database solutions for mission-critical workloads. With a mission to scale when others fail, Cockroach Labs is revolutionizing data management with its cloud-native distributed SQL database, CockroachDB.

© 2025 Cockroach Labs