{
  "id": 68328,
  "title": "Part 5: SQL Parsing: Turning Strings Into Commands",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/03/part-5-sql-parsing-turning-strings-into-commands",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-08-03T03:37:48.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dev.to",
    "slug": "dev-to",
    "url": "https://dev.to/gagandeepahuja09/part-5-sql-parsing-turning-strings-into-commands-397m"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "In Parts 1-4, we built a transactional key-value store. It has WAL for durability, memtables and SSTables for storage, compaction to control file growth, and transactions for atomic multi-key writes. Now we move to the query layer where users can actually fire SQL queries like: CREATE TABLE payments ( amount INT , id STRING , status STRING , captured BOOL , PRIMARY KEY ( id )) INSERT INTO…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}