Alana ThomasValerius Geist Backstory (Star Wars: Edge of the Empire)The lights dimmed and brightened again in D’Renkan Hama’s plush office in the Ommni Box casino, Cloud City, Level 43.5 min read·Jan 15, 2022----
Alana ThomasRevisiting “Updating a Single Column with the Results of A Query in PostgreSQL”I wrote the eponymous article back in October 2019, and my technique has gotten more elegant since then, so here’s an update:3 min read·Mar 5, 2021----
Alana ThomasFilling in Holes in Numeric Ordering in PostgreSQLUsing Postgres’s ROW_NUMBER() function to fill in numeric ordering3 min read·Sep 18, 2020----
Alana ThomasEasier Butter ChickenModified version of Buzzfeed Tasty’s Easy Butter Chicken I put together for my company’s quarantine cookbook project!4 min read·Aug 28, 2020----
Alana ThomasImplementing Flyway with DockerYou can implement Flyway in a Docker-based application by adding it as a service in the docker-compose.yml and configuring the…6 min read·Aug 25, 2020--1--1
Alana ThomasMame “Gammie” Bercik Backstory (DnD 5e)It was all the fault of that gods-damned prophecy, Mame Bercik — Mamie to her friends, Gammie to her family — thought as she threw a pinch…3 min read·Jun 29, 2020----
Alana ThomasPostgreSQL Functions that RETURN TABLEs & Other OptionsA coworker ran into this error and did this research.2 min read·Mar 23, 2020--1--1
Alana ThomasBasic Querying of pg_locks in PostgreSQLThis is copied from another article I wrote, but I wanted to pull it out into its own spot.1 min read·Mar 16, 2020----
Alana ThomasMaterialized Views in PostgreSQLMy humble opinions and recommendations3 min read·Mar 16, 2020----
