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FromDual is the company blog at fromdual.com, writing about data and programming. Since 2011, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-21, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers cite FromDual's posts on MySQL limitations and on the CSV storage engine, which lets a flat file be queried as a table, as references in discussions of database behaviour and TSV or CSV data.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
FromDual is a Neutral and Vendor independent service company for MariaDB, MySQL and Galera Cluster providing Consulting, Training, remote-DBA and Support Services for MariaDB and MySQL.
What Hacker News says?
I remember reading the MySQL developers justifications for why transactions weren't important along with articles such as these back in the 00s https://sql-info.de/mysql/gotchas.html https://fromdual.com/mysql-limitations and deciding a database that treats 1/0 as NULL and allows inserting February 31st as a valid date wasn't worth bothering with.
Comment linking /mysql-limitations
on “Why Uber Engineering Switched from Postgres to MySQL (2016)”Submitted Round-Robin Database Storage Engine (RRD) [pdf] as a story · 3 points
HN discussionA TSV is typically referred to as a "flat file". You're going to get a lot of confused looks if you talk about a "TSV database". That said, you can: - create an external table in an RDBMS (any of the above will work), which allows you to work on a flat file in place: http://www.fromdual.com/csv-storage-engine - import the TSV to an RDBMS, work with it, and export it again. I'm sure someone has written what you're as…
Comment linking /csv-storage-engine
on “How to share data with a statistician”Submitted MySQL single query performance - the truth as a story · 1 points
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