Comments on: Alex King on Google App Environment http://nzfusion.com/james/2008/04/17/alex-king-on-google-app-environment/ technical director, web strategist, software developer and person Mon, 13 Oct 2008 12:18:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: arbingersys http://nzfusion.com/james/2008/04/17/alex-king-on-google-app-environment/#comment-334 arbingersys Mon, 28 Apr 2008 14:53:57 +0000 http://nzfusion.com/james/2008/04/17/alex-king-on-google-app-environment/#comment-334 As to scalability, and being a "game changer", the Datastore (which is integral to this) doesn't work like you expect, especially if you are used to good old relational databases. And the GAE docs are light on how to do the things you do naturally in SQL. Like one-to-many JOINs. After figuring this out for myself, I wrote a short tutorial on how to do a one-to-many JOIN equivalent in the GAE Datastore. http://blog.arbingersys.com/2008/04/google-app-engine-one-to-many-join.html Enjoy! As to scalability, and being a “game changer”, the Datastore (which is integral to this) doesn’t work like you expect, especially if you are used to good old relational databases.

And the GAE docs are light on how to do the things you do naturally in SQL. Like one-to-many JOINs.

After figuring this out for myself, I wrote a short tutorial on how to do a one-to-many JOIN equivalent in the GAE Datastore.

http://blog.arbingersys.com/2008/04/google-app-engine-one-to-many-join.html

Enjoy!

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