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Updating document quality

  • 28 June, 2023
  • By Dave Cassel
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A little-used MarkLogic feature (from what I’ve seen) is the ability to change a document’s quality. Lowering this value will...

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Testing Custom MarkLogic APIs

  • 28 March, 2023
  • By Dave Cassel
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We can use the marklogic-unit-test framework to test custom APIs hosted in MarkLogic. Doing so is more of an integration test than...

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Nulls and the Empty Sequence

  • 28 November, 2022
  • By Dave Cassel
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We recently came across a neat little gotcha that I thought was worth sharing. I’ve written before about how JSON...

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Apply temporal to an existing document

  • 28 October, 2022
  • By Dave Cassel
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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...

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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...

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MarkLogic index data types

  • 28 July, 2022
  • By Dave Cassel
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MarkLogic offers several types of indexes: Universal, range, triples. These indexes provide fast access to your content and can be...

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Scoping queries in the Optic API

  • 28 July, 2022
  • By Dave Cassel
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Every now and then I write an Optic query that has parts that look redundant. In the example below, assume...

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Binding multiple values

  • 28 July, 2022
  • By Dave Cassel
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With MarkLogic’s SPARQL queries, we can bind a value to constrain the query. Using this capability, we can gather information...

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SPARQL update with multiple targets

  • 28 July, 2022
  • By Dave Cassel
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In my last post, I talked about using the bindings parameter of MarkLogic’s sem.sparql function to look for multiple values in a SPARQL query....

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TDE Template – Unknown Table

  • 28 November, 2021
  • By Dave Cassel
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MarkLogic’s Data Hub Central offers an easy way to create entities. As a bonus, it automatically creates a TDE Template...

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Populating an array from numbered fields

  • 28 November, 2021
  • By Dave Cassel
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As we move data from other sources (often relational databases) into MarkLogic JSON, we have the opportunity to change the...

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SPARQL Update and locks

  • 28 October, 2021
  • By Dave Cassel
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I just learned something the hard way, so I thought I’d share. The tl;dr is that sem.sparqlUpdate runs in a separate transaction by default,...

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Making updates safe for parallel processing

  • 28 May, 2021
  • By Dave Cassel
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I’ve seen a couple cases recently where we were making modifications to a document in MarkLogic and the process was...

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Peer reviewing a NiFi flow

  • 21 May, 2021
  • By Dave Cassel
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We’re used to doing reviews for source code. NiFi flows look different, but when they are part of your application’s...

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Setting an attribute with a dynamic property name

  • 28 April, 2021
  • By Dave Cassel
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The NiFi EvaluateJsonPath processor lets you specify a JSON path, which will be applied to the content of a flow...

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Why hire us?

  • 28 February, 2021
  • By Dave Cassel
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If you have made or are considering an investment in MarkLogic, you’ve got an opportunity or problem you weren’t able...

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Comparing xs.dateTime values

  • 20 February, 2021
  • By Dave Cassel
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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...

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Processing upstream deletes

  • 28 January, 2021
  • By Dave Cassel
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We can load data into a data hub from a variety of upstream data sources. What if we want to...

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Working with JSON in XQuery

  • 6 October, 2020
  • By Dave Cassel
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MarkLogic supports XQuery and JavaScript as native languages. XQuery is a very natural way to work with XML, just as...

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Searching for one result

  • 28 September, 2020
  • By Dave Cassel
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MarkLogic is both a database and a search engine. Sometimes, you know you only want one result from your search....

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