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Author Archives: Chris C
Thank you for Attending my SQL Saturday 840 Presentation – Create a Time Travelling Database
Thank you to everyone who attended my SQL Saturday 840 “Create a Time Travelling Database” presentation. I enjoyed your questions and the discussion after the presentation. If you have any further questions feel free to reach out to me at … Continue reading
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Introduction to ORMs for DBAs: Part 7 – Create GamePlayers Table
I gave the Introduction to ORMs for DBAs presentation at SQL Saturday 710 but it didn’t go as well as I would have liked (i.e. I had trouble getting my demo working). Since the demo didn’t work live I thought I would show you … Continue reading
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My Takeaway from Moneyball
Book: Moneyball: The Art Of Winning An Unfair GameAuthor: Michael Lewis Both the movie and book are great and truth be told I watched the movie well before reading the book. In both cases they do a great job of … Continue reading
Today I Learned How to Create a React-Rails App
A working example can be found here in the Saturday MP Examples GitHub. First thing you need to do is create a basic Rails app as outlined in my previous post. My setup is the same as creating Rails app: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS host … Continue reading
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Happy Holidays!
Saturday MP (i.e. Chris and Ada) are taking some time off over the holidays to visit with family, friends, and spending a day not changing out of our pyjamas and playing games all day. We will be back to our … Continue reading
Today I Learned how to Generate a ERD for Rails Application
Back in the day Rails apps didn’t add foreign keys to database tables. Believe it or not this was a feature not a bug. The idea was that you shouldn’t “repeat” the relationship between you models in the code and … Continue reading
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Introduction to ORMs for DBAs: Part 6 – Create GamesPlayed Table and CRUD
I gave the Introduction to ORMs for DBAs presentation at SQL Saturday 710 but it didn’t go as well as I would have liked (i.e. I had trouble getting my demo working). Since the demo didn’t work live I thought I would show you … Continue reading
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Introduction to ORMs for DBAs: Part 5 – Create GameResultTypes Table and CRUD
I gave the Introduction to ORMs for DBAs presentation at SQL Saturday 710 but it didn’t go as well as I would have liked (i.e. I had trouble getting my demo working). Since the demo didn’t work live I thought I would show you … Continue reading
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Today I Learned how to Create Rails Docker Container Without Ruby Installed
I was curious to see if I could create a Docker container for a new Rails project without having Ruby or Rails installed on the host machine. To do this I created a new Ubuntu 18 virtual machine with the … Continue reading
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Introduction to ORMs for DBAs: Part 4 – Create Game CRUD
I gave the Introduction to ORMs for DBAs at SQL Saturday 710 but it didn’t go as well as I would have liked (i.e. I had trouble getting my demo working). Since the demo didn’t work live I thought I would show … Continue reading
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Tagged .NET Core, ASP.NET MVC, DataGrip, Entity Framework, Introduction to ORMs for DBAs, ORM, sql-server
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