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MarkLogic’s temporal feature allows an out-of-the-box way to preserve copies of a document when it gets updated. You can read much more in the Temporal Developer’s Guide, but I had a need to look at a particular question recently — how do I make a non-temporal document temporal? First, let’s think about what makes a document […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]