Showing 8 videos tagged with database

“Comics” Is Hard: On Domains and Databases by Ben Scofield

00:44:12 vimeo.com
It sometimes seems like all domains easily map onto relational database like mysql and postgres — that we live in a happy land where all employees are people, and all people are mammals. unfortunately, however, there are many domains that just don't map so easily onto a standard relational schema. in this session, we'll look at three general alternatives to the familiar model, as illustrated by some specific examples. we'll also see how some alternative databases provide a better fit for spec... View More

Dr Nic Williams - Sharding Your Way to Simplicity

00:07:11 skillsmatter.com
Dr Nic Williams - Sharding Your Way to Simplicity

Episode #18 - Scaling Your Database - Part 2

In this second screencast we start out by learning the differences between the myISAM and InnoDB database engines for MySQL. Next we learn how to scale a write heavy database by using Master Master replication, and how we might configure this to work with our Rails application. Lastly we’ll figure out how to shard our database by spliting our tables between multiple databases and show how both New Relic and eBay take advantage of this technique.

RailsLab - Episode #17 - Scaling Your Database - Part 1

If the bottleneck of your application is your database even after caching as much as possible, what can you do? This is the first of two screencasts where we’re going to learn about techniques for increasing the power of your Database. In this first video we learn how to grow our database step by step using both vertical and horizontal scaling.

Example organisation of a bioinformatics experiment

00:16:14 www.vimeo.com
Example of creating a simple database for bioinformatics analysis of protein sequences

SD Ruby - Episode 055: MySQL, Postgres, and Rails

Guyren Howe has considerable experience with both MySQL and PostgreSQL. He discusses the myriad technical and other advantages to using PostgreSQL instead of MySQL for, well, pretty much anything. Bonus content: download the slides from th... View More

SD Ruby - Episode 062: Track Magic

Jim Rea will demonstrate Track Magic, a plugin for Panorama that allows Rails developers to interact directly with Rails databases on the desktop without a browser.

Railscast - Episode 126: Populating a Database

00:08:38 railscasts.com
Have you ever wanted to fill up a database with a lot of test data? See how to do that in this episode using the populator and faker gems.