Recently my project finished and I came back to my previous team to finish the year with them before I join a completely different department in my company. This morning I was looking out of my hea...

I discovered OPTIONAL MATCH when I was preparing the code kata of Test Driven Development with Neo4j. First, let’s have a look at how the test data look like. You can see that there is one Wine...

I had a discussion a few days ago with a very good friend of mine about different topics including education. So far I’ve lived in two countries for a considerable time - Hungary and France - and I...

I was on a business trip in Japan. We were preparing a migration, an important cutover. I felt really lucky to be able to visit Tokyo like this. In fact, these were my first business trips - yeah I...

I think it’s always interesting to hear from famous and intelligent people about their weaknesses. Peyton Jones said that math was too hard for him at the university so he decided not to graduate i...

As usual, let’s examine what its counterpart can be in SQL. In this case it is definitely SELECT, however RETURN is a bit simpler. Putting that aside, the most important visual difference between t...

Armstrong says that in his time it was easier to be a junior programmer. All one had to do was just get out there and do it. There was not much choice if any. Today we have to choose from dozens of...

In our team of eight, there were six of us with a developer background. But the background is one thing and experience/knowledge is yet another. We arrived with very different experiences language-...

He used to work for Google as Chief Java Architect and before for Sun Microsystems where he worked on various Java features and frameworks. Among others, he had a huge impact on Java 2 and Java 5. ...

Luckily on a basic level both CREATE and MATCH are quite self-explanatory. So with MATCH you’ll be able to look for certain elements in your database. In short, you can match patterns. Often you wi...