The PDF format has experienced a success story on its way from being a quasi proprietary format that could only be dealt with using Adobe tools to a format that is specified and standardized and can be dealt with using open source tools and tools from different vendors. It has become accepted that PDF is …
Monatliche Archive: August 2015
Indexing of Database Tables I (Primary Keys)
Any useful databases with non trivial amounts of data have some indexing mechanism in place that helps finding data based on some key values, because a full table scane or something like that is too expensive and too slow to do it often. The most typical situation is having a key and one or more …