Writing Cypher Queries That Don’t Lose Your Data

The query trap that hides your newest data, and the query shape that brings it back. The girl group as a graph: Beyoncé’s constellation, Kelly’s single thread, and Michelle, present and correct. Photo: Pete Sekesan via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0 (graph overlay added). This week I needed test data for a support bot I’m building. So I created three fake learners in Aura, built to seem like real ones: I named them Beyoncé, Kelly, and Michelle. Beyoncé got the full career: two courses, a certification and completion dates. Kelly got one course in progress. Michelle got an account and nothing else. This was deliberate, because “brand new user with no activity” is usually the kind of case that could break something, and I wanted to test it. Here’s the whole Cypher script. If you’d like to follow along, paste it into a blank Aura instance and the girl group is yours. // Beyonce:…