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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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Handling NaN in NUMERIC Columns (Postgres vs YugabyteDB)

Jim KnicelyMarch 17, 2026

💡 TL;DR PostgreSQL allows NaN in NUMERIC. YugabyteDB currently does not. The best solution is to model “NaN” explicitly in your schema, […]

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Making yb-admin list_snapshots Output Valid JSON

Jim KnicelyNovember 23, 2025

🧑‍💼 Customer Story A customer recently automated their backup validation pipeline and wanted to parse snapshot metadata using: yb-admin list_snapshots show_details JSON […]

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Storing 128-bit Integers in YugabyteDB (YSQL)

Jim KnicelyNovember 6, 2025

💡 Intro YSQL (like PostgreSQL) gives us INT (32-bit) and BIGINT (64-bit), but there’s no native 128-bit integer. So what happens when […]

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