Photo credit I recently had the opportunity to play with the Cypher DSL (domain-specific language) library, and I found it difficult to figure out syntax for some of the queries I was trying to construct. This blog post will hopefully help you understand how to construct your own programmatic queries with Cypher DSL by showing you syntax for nodes, relationships, and filtering. Then see how this in action with some examples for assembling those components into full queries translated from common clauses, functions, and result formats in Cypher.

Photo credit Just when I’m feeling pretty confident about my git skills, I run into a scenario like this one that backpedals my confidence. I keep learning, though, and small improvements are still progress. :) A few weeks ago, I was working on an update to the Graphacademy Spring Data Neo4j course, and things got out of sync. Before I knew it, I was stuck in merge conflict hell and wondering how I got there and if/how I could ever get out.

Photo credit After working on a new online Spring Data Neo4j course, I learned a couple more things about updating an entity. The course required a different set of scenarios than outlined in my previous SDN update blog post, so I wanted to cover those scenarios, as well. Spring save() method First up is the out-of-the-box save() method that is provided by Spring as a default. This method takes an input of the entity object you want to save to the database.