https://jatinderluthra.com/tags/database/Recent content in Database on Jatinder LuthraHugoen-usSat, 06 Jun 2026 00:00:00 -0400https://jatinderluthra.com/posts/stack-confessions-when-database-talks/Sat, 06 Jun 2026 00:00:00 -0400https://jatinderluthra.com/posts/stack-confessions-when-database-talks/<p>What you sow into your data is exactly what you will eventually reap back out of it.</p> <p><em>words of wisdom by database</em></p> <figure class="video-figure"> <video controls preload="metadata" playsinline poster="/videos/when-database-talks.jpg"> <source src="https://jatinderluthra.com/videos/when-database-talks.mp4" type="video/mp4"> Your browser can't play this video. <a href="https://jatinderluthra.com/videos/when-database-talks.mp4">Download it instead.</a> </video> </figure> <p>I am a bit frustrated. You might be wondering why. Let me tell you. You heard from Data two weeks back, when it showed its frustration at being compared to &ldquo;oil&rdquo; in the entire newsletter. I guess by the end, it made its point. Good for it. But Data never mentioned me even once during all of that. This is funny when you consider that I have been one of the main places Data physically lives across every shape Data has ever taken. Not a single word of acknowledgment for fifty years of relational storage, fifteen years of holding documents, ten years of catching every metric off the wire, five years of remembering vectors, and a working lifetime of not losing whatever was handed to me. Such a thankless fellow. Sometimes I wonder how much of it I have been doing without recognition all this time.</p>