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Michael Simons writes info.michael-simons, a personal blog at info.michael-simons.eu about programming and data. Since 2013, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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Why HN links it

HN readers link this 2007 post on retrieving auto-generated keys over JDBC. One commenter cites it to dispute the claim that an extra database round trip is needed to get an ID after insert.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

What Hacker News says?

  1. > You still need a round trip to the DB to get an ID No you don't. Not sure about MySQL but Oracle supports returning generated keys as part of an insertion[1]. An additional round trip is not required as it comes back in the "success" response of the insert itself. [1]: http://info.michael-simons.eu/2007/10/09/jdbc-get-autogenera...

    Comment linking /2007/10/09/jdbc-get-autogenerated-keys-on-a-oracle-db/

    on “Database Design Mistakes”
  2. Submitted Spring Security 5: New Password storage format as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  3. Submitted Schei� encoding: Java, MySQL and multi-byte UTF-8 support as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  4. Submitted Why would a Neo4j person be so fond of an embedded, relational database? as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Spring boots configuration metadata with Kotlin as a story · 1 points

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