Before I got into coding I had no concept of what a database was, except that it was a place to store "data." After reading about "tables" and "relations" I could visualize it better. Later, after working with databases for a few years, I can totally grok it. For years, relational databases were king. Now, it seems that non-relational databases are all the rage. Really, though, it’s like any other tool—you pick the one that suits the situation best.
In February's issue, we explore the subject of Databases:
- Part 2 of Damien Seguy's "Introduction to Neo4j"
- Benjamin Young's "SQL to NoSQL Migration"
- Matthew Setter's "Education Station: Generate Test Data with Ease Using Faker"
- Steve Hannah talks about SWeTE (an open source translation proxy) in "I18n by Translation Proxy"
- In his Laravel Tips column, Dirk Mirkel discusses "Rapid Coding and Prototyping Through Generators"
- In Aaron Saray's The Confident Coder column, he discusses "Attention to Detail"
- Eli White's finally{} column talks "On Elegance"
