Principal Platform Engineer with over 15 years of experience building and scaling backend systems and infrastructure. Strings are all over databases, from emails and usernames to messages, logs, and ...

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If you never set, forgot, or change your MySQL password, you’re in luck. This article walks you through these steps, so you’ll never be at a loss for that ...

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Text has long been customizable in Xcode when creating software for Apple's platforms. Now, String catalogs make it even easier to localize your app to multiple languages. Ever since macOS shipped in ...

Learn how to use MID() and FIND() and then combine them to parse substrings from inconsistent data. Parsing data is a common task in Excel. For the most part, you’ll do so when you need to work with ...

JSON data type was first introduced in MySQL 5.7.8 in August 2015. It was quite a while ago, but I still see many people using the TEXT data type to store JSON data. In this article, I will explain ...