Storing DateTime in MongoDB using C# is easy. Just add a property of DateTime and off you go. Easy. Right? Well, MongoDB stores all date times as UTC, but you can tell the driver to deserialize back as e.g DateTimeKind.Local, but nevertheless, it will be stored in UTC (and maybe not returned with th…
Daniel Wertheim
A while back ago, I worked for a Swedish consultancy firm called Squeed [http://www.squeed.com]. Squeed has really nice inspiring people and a flat organization with lots of possibilities. We were in the progress of establishing an office in Stockholm. As part of getting to know each other at the St…
Daniel Wertheim
When it comes to having a GUI for MongoDB on Windows, my previous, preferred software of choice has been Robomongo [http://robomongo.org/]. Unfortunately (as of current writing) it does not seem to support MongoDB 3.0+ and WiredTiger. Looks like there’s a really good alternative, which I didn’t know…
Daniel Wertheim
This will be a really short post and will be about the whole flexible schemas in NoSQL land and how easy it is to store data and let the design of it evolve by time. “You just throw some JSON in there and then start harvest the data with some nifty queries.” I’m saying, no you are not freed from not…
Daniel Wertheim
Now it’s time to have a quick peak on this whole “schema-less” thing that NoSQL products offer. We will of course focus on MongoDB when we compare a document-oriented DB against a more traditional, relational DB commonly found in RDBMS like SQL Server. Previous articles are: * Getting started (ag…
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