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Column Comments in PostgreSQL and MySQL: How to Document Columns Without a Migration

Dev.to · Son Tran 🔧 Backend Engineering 1mo ago

Column Comments in PostgreSQL and MySQL: How to Document Columns Without a Migration

A column comment costs a full migration cycle, and on MySQL it means restating the entire column definition. Schemity keeps field descriptions in the...

PostgreSQL timestamp vs timestamptz: Which to Use and How to Find the Wrong Ones

Dev.to · Son Tran 🔧 Backend Engineering 1mo ago

PostgreSQL timestamp vs timestamptz: Which to Use and How to Find the Wrong Ones

timestamptz records an instant, timestamp records a reading on a clock, and your ORM probably chose the second one. Schemity's timestamp-not-timestamptz...

Your ERD Shouldn't Be Able to Just Disappear

Dev.to · Son Tran 🔧 Backend Engineering ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago

Your ERD Shouldn't Be Able to Just Disappear

Cloud diagram tools can lose your ERD - one day it is just gone from the list, and recovery means a support ticket or a paid tier. A local ERD tool keeps...

ERD tool built for software engineers who touch a database

Dev.to · Son Tran 🔧 Backend Engineering ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago

ERD tool built for software engineers who touch a database

Import a workspace from anywhere on your machine and treat your ERD like infrastructure - version-controlled in Git, reviewed in PRs, and kept as the...

The ERD that lives in your Git repo

Dev.to · Son Tran 🔧 Backend Engineering ⚡ AI Lesson 2mo ago

The ERD that lives in your Git repo

Stop exporting PNGs to Confluence. A Git-native ERD tool stores your database diagrams as JSON files you can version control, review in PRs, and keep as...