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Dolt is a drop in replacement for MySQL, but beware because transactions behave differently

On my last Golang post, I suggested that the main source of confusion in Golang is the fact that the language presents itself as a C-like object oriented language, and dresses itself in C-like syntax, while di…

The new dolt_undrop() stored procedure allows you to easily restore dropped databases

After you open a pull request in a database, users can comment on the comparison of table cells between the two specified branches.

Fixing a bug in Dolt that MySQL still has and will not fix

sqllogictests is a collection of around 6 million sql correctness tests, designed to be used a as benchmark for SQL engine implementations. Although sqllogictests was made by the sqlite team, it can check for …

In the mid-2000s SQL was having a rough time. NoSQL was all the rage. A chorus of senior engineers shouted: "SQL doesn't scale." "Oracle...Microsoft...waaaaaah! "DBAs are expensive and get in developer's …

Dolt is the first SQL database that versions data with Git semantics. Using Dolt is as easy as downloading the binary, picking a directory for your data (mydb), running dolt sql-server, and using a MySQL c…

Dolt now supports replicated permissions, database drops

Dolt now supports creating and executing MySQL Scheduled Events.

A quick Golang project to generate an ICS calendar feed for an on-call schedule managed by AWS Incident Manager

A demonstration, complete with sample code, on how to use Knex.js with Dolt, the world's first version controlled SQL database.

The snake doesn't like to commit. In Python autocommit is off by default in the Database API. This is different than other standard database connectors like ODBC and JDBC. Most common databases have autocommit…

Tips for running a Discord server for an open-source software project

Dolt is now able to produce a diff from the resulting table sets from two queries, again.

We're saying Good Bye to one of DoltHub's most unique experiments, Data Bounties. DoltHub started with a data marketplace mission. Data Bounties were our best idea to bootstrap a virtuous cycle between data pr…

Dolt, DoltHub, and Hosted Dolt can be used for Spreadsheet Version Control. Many of our customers migrated to Dolt from a really complicated, heavily edited spreadsheet. I first tested Dolt against Google S…

Hosted Dolt now supports SAML single sign-on for your organizations. Choose your third-party identity provider and configure SSO directly from the Hosted website.

Dolt's support for automatically merging schema changes has greatly improved this year.

Previously, I wrote an article about pitfalls befouling Go newcomers. These were each lessons that I personally learned while working on go-mysql-server, a drop-in replacement for MySQL written entirely in Go.…