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Why ORDER BY Can Sort a Value Differently Than What You See

Jim KnicelyMarch 19, 2026

Sometimes a query result looks wrong at first glance… until you realize YugabyteDB is doing exactly what the type system told it […]

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Terminate Idle Sessions in YSQL

Jim KnicelyMarch 19, 2025

In YSQL (Yugabyte Structured Query Language), idle sessions refer to database connections that remain open but are not actively executing queries. These […]

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Display YSQL Database Size

Jim KnicelyJuly 10, 2024

The Postgres pg_database_size(name) built-in system function retunrs the disk space used by the database with the specified name. Although YugabyteDB is Postgres […]

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Using the Translate Function in YSQL

Jim KnicelyMay 7, 2024

The translate() function in both PostgreSQL and YugabyteDB’s Postgres compatible YSQL API, does one-to-one translation of characters in a single operation. The […]

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