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@hrast@sunny.garden  ·  activity timestamp 7 hours ago

Has there been any attempts at integrating Fedi stuff with open databases, such as those for movies and games?

Edit:

Found NeoDB!

#fediverse #activitypub #db #databases #movies #games #music

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@hrast@sunny.garden  ·  activity timestamp 7 hours ago

Has there been any attempts at integrating Fedi stuff with open databases, such as those for movies and games?

Edit:

Found NeoDB!

#fediverse #activitypub #db #databases #movies #games #music

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@djoerd@idf.social  ·  activity timestamp last month

We asked the students of this year's #Databases course for their favorite track, and you can now listen to all of them at:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6XRduaJHmkwIkMKZ8qqoVr

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@djoerd@idf.social  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

The #SQL GROUP BY ALL syntax introduced by analytical systems like DuckDB, Databricks, and Snowflake will be part of the next SQL standard. #Databases

https://peter.eisentraut.org/blog/2025/11/11/waiting-for-sql-202y-group-by-all

Peter Eisentraut

Waiting for SQL:202y: GROUP BY ALL

Making GROUP BY a bit easier to use is in my experience among the top three requested features in SQL.
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@djoerd@idf.social  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

Anna's Archive will provide the audio files too. The AI music generation tech bros will be so happy... #Fail (or, likely, they already know and used the same vulnerability to get the audio)

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@djoerd@idf.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

Some nice #SQL in the wild in the blog post! Examples for SQLite should work for DuckDB with minimal adaption (which is probably your system to go to if you want to recreate the nice analysis and visualisations on this much data on a single machine). #Databases

https://annas-archive.li/blog/backing-up-spotify.html#metadata-files

Backing up Spotify

We backed up Spotify (metadata and music files). It’s distributed in bulk torrents (~300TB). It’s the world’s first “preservation archive” for music which is fully open (meaning it can easily be mirrored by anyone with enough disk space), with 86 million music files, representing around 99.6% of listens.
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@djoerd@idf.social  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

There is now a slightly bigger music database than the one we provided in the #Databases course: The metadata for 256 million of #Spotify tracks are torrented as 9 files of about 22GB each by Anna's Archive

https://annas-archive.li/torrents/spotify

Torrents ▶ spotify - Anna’s Archive

The world’s largest open-source open-data library. Mirrors Sci-Hub, Library Genesis, Z-Library, and more.
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@djoerd@idf.social  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

There is now a slightly bigger music database than the one we provided in the #Databases course: The metadata for millions of Spotify tracks are torrented as 9 files of about 22GB each.

https://annas-archive.li/torrents/spotify

Torrents ▶ spotify - Anna’s Archive

The world’s largest open-source open-data library. Mirrors Sci-Hub, Library Genesis, Z-Library, and more.
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@djoerd@idf.social  ·  activity timestamp 6 days ago

Anna's Archive really has lots of books. Here, as a random example, Halpin and Morgan's "Information Modeling and Relational Databases": https://annas-archive.li/search?q=Information+Modeling%2C+Relational+Databases
#Databases

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@djoerd@idf.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

I was invited by students to give a public mini lecture "Ethical Data Management" on Monday 8 December at 17:30h. in the Huygens building's Giga-Bite space. #Databases

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@Derida@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago

@djoerd Sounds like the student feedback was of great help! Maybe you should reward them a little and give them indeed some test data during the exam 😊

Also, just as a question, are there any cons to point 2?

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@djoerd@idf.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago

@Derida I agree and think I should. There are no real cons to Point 2, as long as it is a small database with "toy examples", but this happened while I was trying to convince the digital exam team to add DuckDB. It took more than a year to get this implemented, and in the end I simplified my requirements to: "please, just add DuckDB without any special configuration or files and stuff"... #Databases

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@djoerd@idf.social  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago

Need a quick intro into #SQL? Get "Become a SELECT Star!" by Julia @b0rk Evans. #Databases

https://wizardzines.com/zines/sql/

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@djoerd@idf.social  ·  activity timestamp last month

Today's #Databases practice exam learnt us a few things: 1. the database schema should be printed along-side the questions, otherwise students keep scrolling;

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@djoerd@idf.social replied  ·  activity timestamp last month

2. Just giving everybody DuckDB without real data makes things cumbersome; maybe we should provide (some) test data anyway? #Databases

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@djoerd@idf.social  ·  activity timestamp last month

Today's #Databases practice exam learnt us a few things: 1. the database schema should be printed along-side the questions, otherwise students keep scrolling;

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@scottish@datasci.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

Announcing DuckDB 1.4.0

https://duckdb.org/2025/09/16/announcing-duckdb-140.html

#DuckDB #Databases

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@serhii@mstdn.science  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

While doing a bibliometric analysis, I noticed something strange – recent papers from 🇹🇷 scholars seemed to disappear from my dataset. The reason? The country officially changed its name to #Türkiye, no longer wishing to be associated with turkey (the bird).

doi https://doi.org/10.1080/10875301.2025.2565176

Names and identities matter. Respecting them is essential, and so is being careful with citation databases whose metadata is not always reliable.

#Bibliometrics #Metadata #Publishing #Citation #Databases

Türkiye Versus Turkey: Tracking the Adoption of the Official Country Name in Academic Publishing

Teixeira da Silva, J. A., & Nazarovets, S. (2025). Türkiye Versus Turkey: Tracking the Adoption of the Official Country Name in Academic Publishing. Internet Reference Services Quarterly. https://doi.org/10.1080/10875301.2025.2565176
Teixeira da Silva, J. A., & Nazarovets, S. (2025). Türkiye Versus Turkey: Tracking the Adoption of the Official Country Name in Academic Publishing. Internet Reference Services Quarterly. https://doi.org/10.1080/10875301.2025.2565176
Teixeira da Silva, J. A., & Nazarovets, S. (2025). Türkiye Versus Turkey: Tracking the Adoption of the Official Country Name in Academic Publishing. Internet Reference Services Quarterly. https://doi.org/10.1080/10875301.2025.2565176
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@djoerd@idf.social  ·  activity timestamp last month

It turns out a misconfigured #ClickHouse #SQL query brought down the internet managed by #Cloudflare... #Databases

https://blog.cloudflare.com/18-november-2025-outage/

The Cloudflare Blog

Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025

Cloudflare suffered a service outage on November 18, 2025. The outage was triggered by a bug in generation logic for a Bot Management feature file causing many Cloudflare services to be affected.
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@djoerd@idf.social  ·  activity timestamp last month

We asked the students of this year's #Databases course for their favorite track, and you can now listen to all of them at:

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6XRduaJHmkwIkMKZ8qqoVr

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@djoerd@idf.social  ·  activity timestamp last month

In next week's #Databases lecture, we will discuss my Frisian family tree where every child is named after their father (oh sweet patriarchy); and we discuss transactions where Daen updates all beer prices in his pub to take some of the fruits of this year's greedflation, and Sally finds that the minimum beer price exceeds the maximum price.

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@djoerd@idf.social  ·  activity timestamp last month

Yesterday, Benard Wanjiru gave the #Databases lecture about SQL and systematic SQL query construction. Some information about the course can be found at: https://djoerdhiemstra.com/category/course-databases/

(the rest, including the slides and the lecture video is behind the university's BrightSpace "paywall", unfortunately)

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@lobsters@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp last month

How to use UUIDv7 in Python, Django and PostgreSQL by @paulox https://lobste.rs/s/svyej1 #databases #python #web
https://www.paulox.net//2025/11/14/how-to-use-uuidv7-in-python-django-and-postgresql/

Paolo Melchiorre

How to use UUIDv7 in Python, Django and PostgreSQL

Learn how to use UUIDv7 today with stable releases of Python 3.14, Django 5.2 and PostgreSQL 18. A step by step guide showing how to generate UUIDv7 in Python, store them in Django models, use PostgreSQL native functions and build time ordered primary keys without writing SQL.
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