Updating a database schema is pretty easy if you can take your application offline. You shutdown the application, create a backup of the current database schema, perform all required update operations using tools like Flyway or Liquibase, restart the application and hope that everything works fine. But that changes if your customers don’t accept any…
Hibernate Tips is a series of posts in which I describe a quick and easy solution for common Hibernate questions. If you have a question for a future Hibernate Tip, please leave a comment below. Question: We are using an Oracle database, and I need to call a function that returns an SYS_REFCURSOR. I tried…
I started 2018 with high expectations and even bigger plans. Now, after having lived through or should I say survived the first 6 months, it’s time to take a look back and to evaluate the goals and achievements. Overall, I had a pretty good first half of the year. I spoke at 5 conferences, hosted…
Hibernate Tips is a series of posts in which I describe a quick and easy solution for common Hibernate questions. If you have a question for a future Hibernate Tip, please leave a comment below. Question: We are using an @ElementCollection to model a list of values on one of our entities. Now we need to…
Reading books is my preferred way of learning. I try to read 2 books per month: 1 book about software development and 1 book about personal growth or general business advice. I enjoy books even more than video courses, which seem to be the most popular resource nowadays and of which I recorded a few…
