Your Data Access Layer Doesn’t Understand Databases
Here’s what nobody in the data access space wants to admit: the tools built to simplify database work have quietly offloaded the hardest parts back onto your application. Not by …
Your Primary Key Is Making Your DB Slow
Split business identity from surrogate; spend clustering where it pays. TL;DR Don’t cluster on row IDs. Keep a surrogate id for FKs (UUIDv7/NEWSEQUENTIALID()/INT). Make the business key the PK or …
pengdows.crud is now released as opensource
🚀 Introducing Pengdows.CRUD – SQL-First, Developer-Focused, Cross-Database Simplicity for .NET Pengdows.CRUD is now open source! This is not an ORM — on purpose. It’s a clean, high-performance, developer-centric data access …
Onions in Milkshakes: A Case for GUIDs and Deterministic IDs with BLAKE3
Data integrity isn’t just theory—it’s the difference between a cheeseburger and a milkshake full of onions. Intro Picture yourself running a classic diner. Burgers sizzling on the grill, fries crisping …
Pengdows.CRUD
This very helpful wrapper over ADO.NET has been released to NuGet free of charge and will soon be released as open source. It is now and will forever be free …