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Understand slowly changing dimension definitions, methods, and tools. Outlines the business benefits of using slowly changing dimension for database versioning. Introduces Dolt, the first SQL database with bui…

The `@@dolt_transaction_commit` system variable turns all SQL commits into Dolt commits, enabling you to have a versioned history of your data without having to explicitly call dolt_commit().

Runtime costs and strategies for static initialization in Go

The database is the heart of most applications. It's where the data that drives your web applications lives. It's where your users' data is stored. The data in your database may be used in countless ways such…

Dolt's Command Line Interface is being modernized to integrate better with our SQL Server. A little history, and a plan for the future.

In this tutorial, learn how to define triggers in MySQL and what they're good for, with examples

In case you haven't heard, we're now Dolt 1.0!. However, we're not finished. In this blog, we'll go over some recent improvements to Dolt's JSON handling. Additionally, I'll go through some examples of JSON…

In early May we announced Dolt v1.0.0, the first stable release of Dolt, signaling that Dolt is ready for production use. Shortly thereafter we revealed that DoltHub.com now runs on Dolt. In my previous blog p…

I'm an engineer at DoltHub, and for the past month, I've been working on matching Dolt's regular expression capabilities with MySQL. This is important for us, as Dolt is a drop-in replacement for MySQL, that …

Dolt is Git for Data. It's a MySQL compatible database with Git-style versioning and branching built in. We launched Hosted Dolt a little over a year ago and since then we've released additional metrics, imp…

Dolt is a version-controlled relational database that supports MySQL features. Today, we are excited to announce that we are adding support for MySQL Events. These are tasks that run on a specific schedule, su…

How to launch multiple Golang binaries from a test and attach your debugger to them

Hospital price data is pretty damn tedious to collect. There thousands of different formats for these files, which by and large contain the same kind of data, just phrased differently. That makes it expensive …

Nike is synonymous with the "Just Do It" ad campaign. Some people think "Dolt" is "DoIt", "Do It" with the space removed. Notice there is no difference in some fonts, like the one we use for this blog. No one …

Sometimes, the most complicated solution may end up being the simplest. This sounds like a contradiction, but it depends on where a project's priorities lay. I'm an engineer here at DoltHub, and about 9 mo…

We have two web products for Dolt: DoltHub and Hosted Dolt. DoltHub is GitHub for Dolt and Hosted is AWS RDS for Dolt. Each product has different use cases depending on your goals, but there are also reaso…

Struggling with a crippling addiction to YAML? You aren't alone. We can help.

For the past few months at DoltHub, we've been really excited about the release of Dolt 1.0. If you missed it, it dropped last Friday May 5th. Dolt 1.0 is the first stable release of Dolt and guarantees for…

Dolt is a MySQL-compatible database that allows branching, diffing, and merging database changes. In this blog post, we will discuss how Dolt is being used with a network automation solution called Nautobot an…

There are a bunch of ways to get started with Dolt, the word's first and only version controlled database. You can run Dolt locally as a version controlled database or as Git for Data. You can start using D…