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Neo4j: Detecting potential typos using EXPLAIN

By Mark Needham | March 18, 2015

I’ve been running a few intro to Neo4j training sessions recently using Neo4j 2.2.0 RC1 and at some stage in every session somebody will make a typo when writing out of the example queries. For example one of the queries… Read more →

Keywords: cypher • EXPLAIN • mark needham • neo4j 2.2

Conceptual Model vs Graph Model

By Greta Workman, Marketing Coordinator | October 9, 2014

Written by Mark Needham. Originally posted on his blog. We’ve started running some sessions on graph modelling in London and during the first session it was pointed out that the process I’d described was very similar to that when modelling… Read more →

Keywords: blog • mark needham • modeling

Neo4j: Generic/Vague relationship names

By Mark Needham | October 6, 2014

Written by Mark Needham, originally posted on His Blog An approach to modelling that I often see while working with Neo4j users is creating very generic relationships (e.g. HAS, CONTAINS, IS) and filtering on a relationship property or on a… Read more →

Keywords: cypher • mark needham • queries • relationships