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There are multiple timeouts to work with when using Postgres and CockroachDB. These can help prevent single statements from running too long, stop transactions that are idle or taking too long, and release locks.

I’ve been using CockroachDB for a while, generally accessing via the command line or from C# applications. When I tried to use via DataGrip, the connection properties were not immediately obvious.

InfluxDB is a time-series database that is great for storing and querying time-based data. This post shows how to set it up with Docker and access it from a C# application.

OBS Studio is usually used to record or stream video, but it can be used to record podcasts.

Sorting strings that contain numbers gets a little more complicated when the number has a variable number of digits. You can end up with a list like this - 1, 10, 11, 12, 2, 3, 4…

Pinch to zoom via the touchpad or screen is not on by default in Microsoft Edge on Ubuntu Linux. Here is a workaround.

Pinch to zoom via the touchpad or screen is not on by default in Chrome, Chromium, and Brave on Ubuntu Linux. But there is a simple fix.

Here is a simple example of using Oracle with Entity Framework Core. But it’s not something I would recommend.

A simple console application that uses Entity Framework to connect to the SingleStore database.

There is no NuGet.exe on Linux or Mac, but the dotnet CLI can be used to do some of the same things, including extracting the contents of a package.