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Vettabase
Company blog · vettabase.com/blog · on HN as FedericoRazzolidataprogramming
Vettabase is the company blog at vettabase.com, writing about data and programming. Since 2020, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 19 times, most often “The risks of MySQL release policy”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-14, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Vettabase posts on SQL and database internals, such as the semantics of NULL in SQL and the limitations of MariaDB ColumnStore. The comments cite them as sources rather than praising them.
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.
Vettabase unites a team of internationally recogniseddatabase consultants providing professional servicesand training for MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL and
Most-linked posts?
- The risks of MySQL release policy2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-11-02
What Hacker News says?
The problem with NULL in SQL is that the semantics are inconsistent in complex ways. See for example https://vettabase.com/blog/what-does-null-mean-in-sql/ .
Comment linking /blog/what-does-null-mean-in-sql/
on “Challenges students face when learning to work with relational databases and SQL”Submitted How Slow Is Select *? as a story · 39 points
HN discussionI don't think MariaDB ColumnStore has any kind of advantage. It is just an append-only storage format with some columnar concepts. https://vettabase.com/mariadb-columnstore-sql-limitations/#I...
Comment linking /mariadb-columnstore-sql-limitations/
on “AliSQL: Alibaba's open-source MySQL with vector and DuckDB engines”Submitted AlloyDB versus PostgreSQL: A Performance Review as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to test database backups as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Basic practices for optimizing read and write performance in PostgreSQL as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted MariaDB 10.8: A Review as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tuning PostgreSQL Auto-Vacuum as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dropping database objects in a safe way as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted MariaDB Ignored Indexes as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Logging All MariaDB and MySQL Queries into the Slow Log as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Benefits of Infrastructure as Code as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Hints to optimise SQL queries with LIKE as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The risks of MySQL release policy as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is InnoDB Buffer Pool big enough? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted CentOS Linux Alternatives as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Creating dynamic configuration files with Ansible as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Running Ansible inside a dedicated host as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The risks of MySQL release policy as a story · 1 points
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