Simon Willison’s Weblog

CouchDB View Cookbook for SQL Jockeys. This demystified CouchDB views for me. From “CouchDB: The Definitive Guide”, the free online manual.

Posted 26th November 2009 at 1:20 pm

Recent articles

How StrongDM's AI team build serious software without even looking at the code - 7th February 2026
Running Pydantic's Monty Rust sandboxed Python subset in WebAssembly - 6th February 2026
Distributing Go binaries like sqlite-scanner through PyPI using go-to-wheel - 4th February 2026

cookbook 1 couchdb 27 sqll 1 views 4

Monthly briefing

Sponsor me for $10/month and get a curated email digest of the month's most important LLM developments.

Pay me to send you less!

Sponsor & subscribe