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5 o’clock is 5 o’clock, right? Well, not once we start thinking about time zones. 17:00:00-05:00 (5pm here on the east coast of the US) is 22:00:00Z in London. But that’s simple enough; this is why we have the time zone expressed as part of date times. For a recent project, I needed to check […]

We can load data into a data hub from a variety of upstream data sources. What if we want to delete documents that have been deleted upstream? In the ideal case we’re using a Change Data Capture system and we get notifications about those deletions, but sometimes we don’t have that. How can we detect […]

MarkLogic supports XQuery and JavaScript as native languages. XQuery is a very natural way to work with XML, just as JavaScript is a very natural way to work with JSON. However, sometimes it’s useful to cross over and work with JSON using XQuery or vice versa. This post has some tips on using XQuery to […]

MarkLogic is both a database and a search engine. Sometimes, you know you only want one result from your search. What’s a good way to do that? Using MarkLogic’s Server-side JavaScript, here’s one way to do it: const query = …; // foreshadowing — there’s a better way! cts.search(query).toArray().slice(0, 1) We get the results of […]