Jacob Rief

After graduating from the University of Innsbruck in CS and Physics, Jacob worked for different companies as a system architect and software developer, where he built and scaled websites in Perl, PHP and Javascript. After dealing with a lot of unmaintainable and poorly written code, Jacob fell in love with Python and Django and hasn’t looked back since. Jacob is a strong believer in sharing knowledge and maintains a dozen of quite popular OSS project on his GitHub account.


Session

05-23
14:00
30min
Representing Hierarchies in Relational Databases
Jacob Rief

In this talk, I’ll explain the fundamental problem representing deep hierarchies in relational databases. To address this problem, we can use a database design pattern, named Materialized Path Trees.

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