Questions tagged [database]
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Allow client side direct access to the database [duplicate]
I am asking advice from the SQL graybeards. Because my following proposition goes against everything I have practiced.
In this instance
Let's assume we are developing a phone app. A social network ...
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ACL entity and microservices database relations
I would like to build a microservices architecture to handle the following scenario:
I have a building. The building has some kinds of devices. And the devices can be used by the users. In the system, ...
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How to store relational data belonging to different client customers?
My users will be businesses with a small number of accounts each: e.g. Business #1 with 3 users, Business #2 with 5 users, etc.
I am trying to determine the best way to organise the relation (on ...
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Is there a way to prevent developers leaking data while they are developing?
I am working with a startup company for a while now. They have been affected by some reckless developers in the past. One area they want a real and immediate improvement is when they assign a task to ...
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Storing and searching a vast database of text [on hold]
I am building an application to search through a large number of comments. Currently I am storing the comments in an sqlite database, but it has grown to around 40GB in size and even with FTS5 ...
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What architecture is the most adapted for a shared balance in Nodejs (and maybe Redis)? [on hold]
I need some kind of fast micro-services using nodejs to share a common balance between several services. Several services can change this balance , so the balance must guarantee that the operation ...
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About databases in docker containers
I'm trying to understand containerized apps and databases and I'm trying to understand the microservice architecture using kubernetes. One thing that I couldn't get my mind convinced is the database ...
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Approach to handle network breakdowns in application dealing with database?
I have an application that writes data to database. In case of network breakdowns, the connection to database gets lost & my db queries freezes the whole application.
So, in order to make it ...
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Unit conversion of data
My team is developing a web application, where we have in the requirements to display the data in multiple unit which is set by the end user.
Where should we write down the unit conversion logic, on ...
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How do database storage engines handle new columns?
I really don't know which StackExchange site this belongs on. It didn't seem to match the "on-topic" list of DBA.SE or SO.SE ... so please let me know if I should move it. I also couldn't find a ...
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When is the point where a JSON text file storage is not enough?
I guess it was Robert C. Martin who campaigned against using SQL in one of his apps, where he was just fine without DB and SQL initially. Later, thanks to the abstraction a DB implementation could be ...
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Object Data must be built on SQL side or in Code Side?
I am thinking of a very flexible application that will build a single entity object from a lot of tables joins. example for an object "Car"
with a code something like this
SELECT e.id, a1.attr_value ...
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Who (and what) should have direct access to a database, and why?
I am developing a chat application as my the first project. I have never had experience of establishing a connection to the remote database server before so I don't really understand who should have ...
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Does a microservice's individual database need to have complete data?
Say you have a Users and Orders service and they have their own database.
Since microservices need to stand on their own even if another service is unavailable, does the Orders DB need to have all ...
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Database structure for an app used to capture data in warehouses
I am in the process of creating an android app for our clients that would replace the paper-trail in their facilities with electronic inspections.
Although I have coding experience, I have little ...
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Database schema for products and their packages
The product is water purifier, and we are selling packages included support for changing filters.
Serial is a unique number identifying a single produced item and it's only for water purifiers not ...
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How to handle database connection password?
I have a question about using databases in my application. I have the User table which stores password for my users. I know how to handle user authentication, but how to handle the password for the ...
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How to store message content in a webservice
I am building a service responsible for sending email/sms communications. The service receives a request that contains information necessary to build an email/sms template and the recipient ...
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Could you please recommend an approach on converting non-unique field to a unique field?
On our prod db we have two tables:
companies
invoices
Relationship:
A company has many invoices
An invoice belong to a company
The invoices table contains duplicate invoice_number for each company. ...
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What is the best model to catch DB side error?
We have a web application that all update, insert and DB operation procedure handle via SQL Server DB 2017. What is the best way to handle and get error (in Web-app or SQL server error handler?). for ...
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Designing database relationships for a voting application
So I designed database relationships for a voting/polling application. I want a user to only be able to pick 1 option on a poll. I want multiple options per poll.
So what I have here is this.
User
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Multiple stored procedures or 1 with parameter
I need some advice...
I started working at a financial business world recently.
Looks like the DB architect uses auto generate function to create stored procs. At the end, we have way too many procs ...
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Mock db out or not during testing?
I am writing an app that mainly consists of just creating, editing and reading records in database. I was persuaded that any app has to be covered with tests. I was told that it's a good practice to ...
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Why not use SQL instead of GraphQL?
Recently I learned about GraphQL which claims to be superior to RESTful. However, I started wondering why don't we simply put SQL statements into an HTTP GET request.
For example, in GraphQL I would ...
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Generate HTTP RESTful server from database schema
Today the job of most Java-based servers is to translate HTTP requests into SQL commands/queries and send a JSON-ed response back to the client. That's a pretty generic (and honestly boring) job.
I ...
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Am I right in writing our own database migration/versioning software?
I have started work on writing a tool to version the database schemas we use at work and enable migrations under version control. My first research into existing tools turned out to be too cursory due ...
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Small databases online
This is to ask whether accdb databases are suitable for this application, and how to connect the user with the database (and the phone network with the database if anyone has a comment on this).
I ...
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How to design database tables for complex build of materials as product models?
I need to redesign a 10 year old Product Management Portal and underlying Data-model. There are build of materials as products in the system.
Product managers update pricing frequently for products. ...
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Is it worth to use a sql db for just two columns (possibly extensible)?
So, first of all hello to everyone, I hope you are having a good day :)
I will give you a little context. I coded a program for my job, in which I save to a database Errors ID and their solutions. It ...
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How should I design database, where I have 30 users, each who needs full access to their data?
I work for something like a consulting company. I have a web application that I built for one client. Now around 30 other clients want about the same product. The problem is, I don't know where to put ...
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Database agnostic DAO (NoSQL + SQL)
Background
While writing a new component, I m in middle of making a decision of SQL/NOSQL database (Mongo vs Mysql) for my storage layer. As of today, mysql seems to be a perfect fit for my use-case (...
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Custom service layer logic vs Custom DB query
I am trying to confirm best practice around architecture I am working with.
Frontend <-> API gateway <-> Service layer (Rest API) <-> DB
I have an incoming request which is asking for huge ...
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Multiple use/semantics of the same database fields - is it acceptable practice?
I have ERP database whose good or person entities each have several hundreds of fields. Many of them are used for some subjects only. And hence senior companions (especially from the business division)...
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An approach to writing database applications [closed]
I'd like to share my approach to writing database applications for small businesses. It's possibly unconventional, but it's something I have been developing for nearly 20 years.
The approach I use is ...
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Storing answers of a form builder where question sections may be repeated N times
I built a form builder with which administrators of the system I work on can build forms (or blueprints as we call them). The structure of these blueprints are as follows:
blueprint X
section 1
...
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Real Time Web Sockets Architecture
I am confused here on how real time analytics is accomplished with web sockets when data is inserted into the system via a REST API. In my (admitted immature) understanding of web sockets, you have ...
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different data connectors for different objects and users
I have an application which needs to store different objects in different data stores based on the user's authorization credentials. I.E. the user may need to save object 1 to their BI postgres ...
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Check if object exists before updating/deleting
In an application that doesn't use an ORM, is it good practice to check whether an object exists before attempting to update/delete it?
For example:
@Route(method="DELETE", path="/posts/\d+")
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Preuso/empty entity or only real entities + nulls?
I have a table "products" and a child one "product_modifications"
Some products have "product_modifications": "colour", "size",, .... But not all.
When a client orders a product, views pictures and ...
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My team is scared of relational database entities with foreign key relationships and I don't understand why
I'm relatively fresh out of college so most of my familiarity with relational databases is from my databases course where anything not in BCNF or 3NF is a travesty. Certainly that's one end of the ...
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How to improve code quality in database driven applications
I'm working for a company with a big ass legacy codebase. Changing existing code is like a guarantee to break things. Most functions are a few thousand lines, using some global flags, having different ...
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Referencing Database Primary Keys from Codebase
I don't have a lot of experience with these kind of issues, but I feel I need to consult on this issue. The current codebase I'm working on is using what I consider to be a questionable technique to ...
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What is the name of DB design pattern which support only soft-deletes and soft-updates?
I heard that there is some DB design in relational databases where updating a record will create a new record with different timestamp or status. Also, deletion will be soft-delete (it updates the ...
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Maintaining parallel libraries: Binary files access + Metadata Database ORM design
I'm dealing with a higher-level data abstraction that I would appreciate some input on.
I'm working on an application that uses a large data lake. The data lake is consisted of thousands of large ...
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Auto incrementing from two different points on the same table?
Each customer has an ID. For every new customer it's incremented by 1.
My company is wanting to start selling to a new type of customer (lets call it customer B), and have their ID start at 30k on ...
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Splitting application into multiple but keeping database same
I have a medium scale e-commerce application. Over a period of time our monolithic project got quite heavy in terms of code base. I was exploring the solutions for it and found micro-services is one ...
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What is the best method to avoid company data duplication in mixed B2C and B2B product in account creation?
I'm building a user license portal, store, SSO, and mini CRM and admin for internal people to manage those users for a niche 3D software company, similar to Autodesk. Licenses are sold to both ...
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Most efficient way to get unique customer count
I'm working on a system that stores details of customer purchases for several stores. One statistic that they would like is to know how many unique customers they have had over a specified day range, ...
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How should I update back-end data (e.g. follows, likes, etc.) which changes at an inconsistent rate?
(This is a conceptual question but as reference, I'm using Android Studio (Java) and Firebase Firestore...)
My app currently has a structure where the user can follow authors and favorite their works....
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Do I really need triggers for relational database, for example, PostgreSQL?
I know that triggers can be used to validate stored data to keep database consistent. However, why not perform validation of data on the application side before storing them into the database?
For ...
