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What Does it Mean to be a MarkLogic DBA?

  • 28 August, 2022
  • By Dave Cassel
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The responsibilities of a DBA are different for MarkLogic than for a traditional relational database. While the line of responsibility among a DBA, the development team, and system administrators will be drawn differently at every organization, here are some guidelines you can use. Included The activities in this section will generally be handled by a […]

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MarkLogic Index Data Types

  • 28 July, 2022
  • By Dave Cassel

MarkLogic offers several types of indexes: Universal, range, triples. These indexes provide fast access to your content and can be configured to work with specific data types. MarkLogic will even do some type conversions for you. Universal Index Let’s insert a couple documents. Note the difference between the updated properties (“T” versus no “T”) and the types […]

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Scoping Queries in the Optic API

  • 28 July, 2022
  • By Dave Cassel

Every now and then I write an Optic query that has parts that look redundant. In the example below, assume the 4V.Sample view has a “keyCode” field and that the JSON docs the view is built from have a “keyProp” property. My goal is to gather some information from a view for a specific set of values. […]

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Binding Multiple Values

  • 28 July, 2022
  • By Dave Cassel

With MarkLogic’s SPARQL queries, we can bind a value to constrain the query. Using this capability, we can gather information about something of interest. But what if I want to query against multiple values? Let’s start with some sample data. ‘use strict’; declareUpdate(); const sem = require(“/MarkLogic/semantics”) const myPred = sem.iri(“myPredicate”); sem.rdfInsert([1, 2, 3, 4, […]

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