1. REFERENCE
    9 min read

    So you want Database Versioning?

    Tim Sehn|

    Here at DoltHub, we've had a lot of success with our "So you want..." series of blog posts helping people find Dolt when they are looking for it. Dolt is a lot of things. Dolt is a version controlled database, a Git database, Git for data, data…

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  1. REFERENCEWORKBENCH
    3 min read

    Dolt for Beginners: Dolt Workbench

    The Dolt for Beginners series focuses on topics people getting started with Dolt will likely be interested in. Most of our other blog articles go pretty deep so we want a space to talk about topics that experts may find boring. ...

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  2. REFERENCE
    9 min read

    A Deep-Dive on Session-Aware GC

    A few weeks ago, we announced the availability of automatic garbage collection in Dolt sql-server . This blog post is a quick follow up outlining some of the implementation challenges in automatic GC and how the collection and reference tracking…...

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  3. DOLTGRES
    5 min read

    Doltgres Data Imports

    Lately, we've been hard at work building Doltgres , our version-controlled Postgres-compatible database. Doltgres gives you the power of a SQL relational database, combined with the distributed version-control features of Git. Doltgres is current...

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  4. AI
    3 min read

    A Pull-first Ollama Docker Image

    Over the past few months, we've been experimenting more and more with AI tooling/technologies in an effort to find ways to extract some real value from them. I've recently announced the release of our robot-blogger tool, only to follow it up ...

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  5. USE CASE
    3 min read

    Dolt for Video Game Development

    We're at the Game Developers Conference (GDC) this week in San Francisco. Stop by our booth if you're reading this on the cable car on the way to the exhibition hall. Somewhat surprisingly, Dolt's biggest vertical is video game development. That...

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  6. USE CASEAI
    9 min read

    Dolt for Agentic Workflows

    Things are going pretty well here at DoltHub. Dolt , the world's first and only version controlled SQL database , is being used for a ton of use cases , the most popular of which are to version video game configuration or as a Machine Le...

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  7. GOLANG
    10 min read

    Go import cycles: three strategies for how to deal with them, and a plea for a fourth

    Everybody has their pet issues with their daily driver language. For Gophers, a lot of us complain about the verbosity of error handling. Me, I don't mind that so much. No, for me, my biggest complaint about th...

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  8. SQL
    11 min read

    Introducing the Dolt Debug Command

    DoltDB is a version controlled relational database built from the ground up. The storage format is novel. The execution engine is novel. Both are increasingly Postgres and MySQL compatible. And it is all open source and written in GoLang. ...

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  9. AI
    8 min read

    How to Provision an EC2 GPU Host on AWS

    AI is all the rage right now, and if you're like me, you're probably looking for quick and easy ways to try out this new technology yourself. There are some great ways to get started using AI locally on your own machine; I've personally been using ...

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  10. FEATURE RELEASECOMMAND LINE
    2 min read

    Announcing Dolt SQL Shell Pager Support

    Dolt, the world's first SQL Database which can version control every revision of data within it, has a variety of ways to interact with it. One of which is our home grown SQL Shell, which is a terminal based interface to the database, similar to ...

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  11. REFERENCE
    8 min read

    Dolt for Beginners: Branches

    The Dolt for Beginners series focuses on topics people getting started with Dolt will likely be interested in. Most of our other blog articles go pretty deep so we want a space to talk about topics that experts may find boring. ...

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  12. GOLANG
    2 min read

    Archiving the dolthub/swiss GitHub Repository

    At DoltHub, we're building Dolt, the world's first SQL database that supports Git-like version control, including branch, merge, diff, clone, push and pull. Dolt is written in Go. Almost two years ago, my colleague Andy released an implementation...

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  13. WORKBENCHFEATURE RELEASE
    4 min read

    The Dolt Workbench Now Ships With a Built-In Dolt Server

    We’re excited to announce that the Dolt Workbench , a modern, open-source SQL workbench for MySQL and PostgreSQL compatible databases, now bundles Dolt servers directly within the desktop application. No more jumping between terminals and GUI — n...

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  14. 11 min read

    MySQL Foreign Keys: How and why with examples

    Foreign keys are a tool to make your SQL table data accurate and safe. In this tutorial, learn what a foreign key is, how to use them, and what they're good for. What's a foreign key? A foreign key is a way to declare that values in one ta...

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  15. AI
    13 min read

    Robot Blogs Suck

    Well, we tried. If you're unaware, my last few posts have been about learning RAG and building a tool called Robot Blogger to generate blog posts for our company. We were hoping to see some real improvements in the quality of the generated...

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  16. REFERENCE
    8 min read

    Dolt for Beginners: Commits

    The Dolt for Beginners series focuses on topics people getting started with Dolt will likely be interested in. Most of our other blog articles go pretty deep so we want a space to talk about topics that experts may find boring. ...

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  17. SQL
    6 min read

    Coordinating Goroutine Listeners

    We use Golang to build DoltDB , a version-controlled SQL database. In the process we frequently run into language peculiarities and trade-offs. The Go runtime thread manager makes many things possible, but also sometimes gives us too many options...

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  18. FEATURE RELEASE
    4 min read

    Announcing automatic garbage collection in Dolt sql-server

    At DoltHub, we are building Dolt is the world's first version-controlled SQL database, supporting operations like branch , diff , merge , rebase , and blame as well as interactions with remotes such as clone , push and fetch . Tod...

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  19. 13 min read

    MySQL Secondary Indexes: How and why with examples

    One of the most important concepts in SQL is the index. This tutorial will teach you what an index is, how to use it, and what it's good for. What's an index? An index is a way for a database to quickly locate a particular set of rows. Ind...

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  20. AI
    6 min read

    Announcing DoltHub Robot Blogger

    Today we're excited to share our open-source Robot Blogger tool 🤖! If you've not been following along, I wrote about my experience learning about RAG to get a robot blogger prototype working. Our goal was to build something that we could ...

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