Category: programming

Switching from SVN to Git

We are switching our version control repository from Subversion to Git. Initially I read Why Distributed Version Control Matter to You, Today and shrugged my shoulders and said, “Maybe so, but subversion works fine.” However we recently ran into a situation where we needed more robust branching and merging features than Subversion had […]

By britt | 24 Mar 08 | Also posted in announcements, documentation | Comments (1)

Big Changes Coming to HiveDB

There are some big changes coming to the hive interface. If you look in at trunk code you’ll see that all of getConnection and getJdbcDaoSupport now return collections instead of single connections. This is for two reasons

To support secondary indexes that can resolve to multiple records, like index by name or by type
To […]

By britt | 09 Jul 07 | Also posted in announcements, subversion | Comments (0)

Hive Connections are Transaction Scoped

HiveDB Connections have the same scope as a database transaction.
When writing an application that uses HiveDB you should consider the connections that you obtain from the Hive to have the same scope as a single database transaction. Further you should obtain a new connection from the Hive for each transaction. You don’t need […]

By britt | 14 May 07 | Also posted in documentation, java | Comments (1)