#NorthYorkshire Council to phase out #apostrophe use on #streetsigns To Avoid #Database Problems
The North Yorkshire Council in England announced it will ban apostrophes on street signs as it can affect geographical databases. Resident Anne Keywood told the BBC that she urged the authority to retain apostrophes, saying: "If you start losing things like that then everything goes downhill doesn't it?" https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-68942321
If you ever wanted the Chinook database for @firebirdsql and have been waiting, your day has come! You can find the restore file and SQL script for DDL and data at
The tool adds a layer of transparency to Canada's opaque #captive#wildlife problem. Documenting instances of #zoonotic#disease outbreaks, escapes, attacks and more, the tool is the most comprehensive #database to date by any organization or government in Canada.
Ich habe gerade mit „Erschrecken“ festgestellt, wie lange ich schon PhpStorm nicht mehr geöffnet habe. Das war eine Update-Orgie, die einem Windows alle Ehre gemacht hätte. Und dabei wollte ich nur schnell mal einen Blick auf den Datenbank-Client werfen. Weil ich sowas in der Art jetzt auch direkt in neovim habe: https://www.insomniaonline.de/ein-datenbank-client-in-neovim#neovim#database
The world of big data, databases, and R is rapidly evolving with an explosion of tools and packages. We're delighted to announce two workshops at posit::conf(2024) tailored for working with large datasets:
• Big Data in R with Arrow, led by Nic Crane and Steph Hazlitt
• Databases with R led by @kirill
🧵 …have any of you #Rust developers ever used a #database developed in #RustLang that is completely #opensource? What is your experience with the #DB and do you know it?
You can see which ones I've discovered so far in the above toots.