Software — Database — February 4th, 2026

Oracle Data Loading Reimagined: Performance Strategies for Modern Workloads
Combining direct path loading, parallelism, partitioning, index strategy, NOLOGGING, and tuned commits can reduce Oracle data load times by 70--90% in production.
February 4, 2026 — Source

Software — Database — February 2nd, 2026

A Generic MCP Database Server for Text-to-SQL
A YAML-driven, secure, and scalable framework that enables accurate text-to-SQL queries across PostgreSQL, MySQL, Snowflake, Redshift, and more.
February 2, 2026 — Source

Snowflake bets $200M that OpenAI makes databases more chatty
Cuts out the Azure middleman with multi-year deal for 'tighter alignment'
February 2, 2026 — Source

Software — Database — February 1st, 2026

Exposed MongoDB instances still targeted in data extortion attacks
A threat actor is targeting exposed MongoDB instances in automated data extortion attacks demanding low ransoms from owners to restore the data.
February 1, 2026 — Source

Software — Database — January 31st, 2026

Google Introduces Managed Connection Pooling for AlloyDB
Google Cloud has made managed connection pooling generally available for AlloyDB for PostgreSQL, bringing PgBouncer-like functionality directly into the database service. The feature delivers what Google claims is 3x more client connections and up to 5x higher transactional throughput than direct connections - addressing a scaling challenge that hits developers running high-concurrency workloads.
January 31, 2026 — Source

Software — Database — January 30th, 2026

Oracle seeks to build bridges with MySQL developers
Big Red promises 'new era' as long-frustrated contributors weigh whether to believe it
January 30, 2026 — Source

Software — Database — January 7th, 2026

AWS Bedrock versus Azure OpenAI versus Gemini API: A Practical Comparison
Bedrock = multi-model flexibility, Azure OpenAI = Microsoft-centric enterprise, Gemini = long-context and multimodal with free tier.
January 7, 2026 — Source

How to Build a Database without a Server
Alex Seaton discusses the architecture of ArcticDB, a high-performance Python/C++ library that replaces traditional database servers with a thick-client model. He explains how to achieve atomicity on object storage through bottom-up writes and shares deep insights into conflict-free replicated data types (CRDTs).
January 7, 2026 — Source

Implementing Idempotency in Distributed Spring Boot Applications Using MySQL
Implementing idempotency in distributed Spring Boot applications using MySQL row-level locking and transactions to handle concurrent requests safely.
January 7, 2026 — Source

Software — Database — January 5th, 2026

Self-Host Your Airtable Workflows with a Docker-Friendly SQL-Backed Grid Interface
What if you could break free from subscription fees, vendor lock-in, and row limits while still managing your data with the ease of a spreadsheet? Better Stack walks through how an open source platform called NoDB is redefining database management by transforming SQL databases into a user-friendly, spreadsheet-style interface. Unlike proprietary options like Airtable, NoDB enables users with full data ownership and the ability to self-host, making it a fantastic option for anyone seeking flexibility and control.
January 5, 2026 — Source

Unlocking Hidden Value in Dirty Data: A Practical NLP Pattern for Legacy Records
Legacy systems are full of free-text fields where valuable business data goes to die. NLP pipelines turn messy maintenance logs into structured, actionable insights.
January 5, 2026 — Source

Software — Database — January 2nd, 2026

Swiggy Rolls out Hermes V3: from Text-to-SQL to Conversational AI
Swiggy released Hermes V3, a GenAI-powered text-to-SQL assistant that enables employees to query data in plain English. Hermes operates within Slack, combining vector retrieval, session memory, agentic orchestration, and an explanation layer to generate accurate SQL queries from natural language inputs.
January 2, 2026 — Source

Software — Database — December 12th, 2025

User privacy in digital databases: New metric allows for more accurate assessment
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M), in collaboration with the National Cybersecurity Institute (INCIBE), an entity under the Ministry for Digital Transformation and Public Administration through the Secretariat of State for Telecommunications and Digital Infrastructure, have promoted the development of a new probabilistic metric designed to more accurately measure the level of privacy and protection that users have in different databases.
December 12, 2025 — Source

Software — Database — December 5th, 2025

Azure Local, IoT Operations Get AI-Powered Edge Computing Enhancements
Azure Local and IoT Operations received a broad set of updates this week as Microsoft moved to expand AI-enabled edge computing across hybrid and highly distributed environments.
December 5, 2025 — Source

Software — Database — December 3rd, 2025

Azure API Management Premium v2 GA: Simplified Private Networking and VNet Injection
Microsoft recently announced the general availability (GA) of API Management Premium version 2, which features a new architecture that eliminates management traffic from the customer VNet, making private networking, according to the company, much more secure and easier to set up.
December 3, 2025 — Source

Dealing with the challenge of creating a unified SQL Server data estate [Q&A]
Many organizations are running SQL Server across Windows, Linux, containers, and Kubernetes. Obviously there are advantages if that environment can be unified into a single data estate, but doing so presents a number of challenges.
December 3, 2025 — Source

Memori Expands into a Full-Scale Memory Layer for AI Agents across SQL and MongoDB
Memori has matured into a full-featured, open-source memory system designed to give AI agents long-term, structured, and queryable memory using standard databases rather than proprietary vector stores. Instead of relying on ad-hoc prompts or ephemeral session state, Memori continuously extracts entities, facts, relationships, and context from interactions and stores them in SQL or MongoDB backends, enabling agents to recall and reuse information across sessions with no manual orchestration.
December 3, 2025 — Source

Software — Database — November 29th, 2025

Azure Virtual Desktop Goes Fully Hybrid with Arc-Enabled Servers
Microsoft recently announced a limited preview of Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) for hybrid environments, a new capability that brings cloud-native desktop virtualization to existing on-premises infrastructure.
November 29, 2025 — Source

Software — Database — November 26th, 2025

Azure SDK Release (November 2025) released
The latest Azure SDK release, focusing on November 2025 service versions, brings several important updates across different languages and services. The Storage library now supports the newest API version, enabling more reliable data transfers for .NET and Java developers, while also fixing long-standing issues with copy operations and error messages. Additionally, other services have received new releases, including Storage Queues in .NET and Java, and Identity Binding improvements within Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), which tackles limitations in workload identity and boosts scalability.
November 23, 2025 — Source

Software — Database — November 22nd, 2025

MariaDB 12.2.1 Release Candidate released
MariaDB Foundation has released the latest release candidate, 12.2.1. The new release offers improvements and refinements in various areas, including deeper compatibility with established systems like MySQL and Oracle, as well as enhancements to the optimizer and performance tools. Additionally, it includes practical additions such as the long-awaited Oracle TO_NUMBER function and a TRUNC() function to round numbers down, making number conversion easier. The update also addresses several issues and expands MariaDB's built-in metadata capabilities, solidifying its position as a strong database option.
November 21, 2025 — Source

Software — Database — November 20th, 2025

Beyond Vector Databases: Integrating RAG as a First-Class Data Platform Workload
Architectural framework that integrates RAG deeply into enterprise data platforms through event-driven indexing, multi-layer hybrid retrieval, and governance by design.
November 20, 2025 — Source

Manchester hits snooze again on joining Palantir-run NHS data platform
Care board still waiting for evidence that it will be in the best interests of the population
November 20, 2025 — Source

Software — Database — November 13th, 2025

DocumentDB Goes Cloud-Native: Introducing the DocumentDB Kubernetes Operator
Deploy, manage, and scale DocumentDB on Kubernetes with the new open-source DocumentDB Operator — cloud-native, PostgreSQL-based, and MongoDB-compatible.
November 13, 2025 — Source

ERP carnage continues as orgs jump in unprepared
Lack of executive backing, unrealistic plans, and muddled goals remain recipe for failure
November 13, 2025 — Source

Software — Database — November 7th, 2025

Microsoft Moves Azure DevOps MCP Server from Preview to General Availability
Microsoft announced in October 2025 that its Azure DevOps MCP Server, a local Model Context Provider designed to bring richer context to AI assistants like GitHub Copilot, has exited public preview and become generally available. The announcement appears in Microsoft's Azure DevOps blog, highlighting enhancements made following feedback from early adopters.
November 7, 2025 — Source

Software — Database — November 6th, 2025

A Practical Guide to Modernizing Data Serving Architectures Using DBSQL
Learn how we replaced our traditional RDS serving layer with direct lakehouse querying to improve performance, reduce cost, and achieve real-time data freshness.
November 6, 2025 — Source

Azure APIM Simplifies Event-Driven Architecture with Native Service Bus Policy
Microsoft recently announced a preview feature for its API Management (APIM) service that allows developers to send messages directly to Azure Service Bus using a built-in policy. The company states that the feature simplifies how organizations connect their API layer to event-driven, asynchronous systems.
November 6, 2025 — Source

Optimizing Write-Heavy Database Workloads for Low Latency
This article will explore the performance-related complexities that teams commonly face with write-heavy workloads and discuss your options for tackling them.
November 6, 2025 — Source

Tactical Domain-Driven Design: Bringing Strategy to Code
Tactical DDD transforms business understanding into code through seven core patterns — from entities to domain events — building software that truly reflects the domain.
November 6, 2025 — Source

Software — Database — November 5th, 2025

Azure Front Door Outage: How a Single Control-Plane Defect Exposed Architectural Fragility
Azure Front Door (ADF) is Microsoft's advanced cloud Content Delivery Network (CDN) designed to provide fast, reliable, and secure access to customers' applications' static and dynamic web content globally. This service recently experienced a nearly nine-hour global service disruption.
November 5, 2025 — Source

How to Integrate Playwright With Azure DevOps for Automated UI Testing
Read an overview of how to set up a Playwright Test automation pipeline with Azure DevOps, self-hosted agents, and HTML/JUnit reports.
November 5, 2025 — Source

Snowflake goes all out to woo PostgreSQL developers with lakehouse extensions
Buyers still struggling to differentiate data platforms in era of AI
November 5, 2025 — Source

Software — Database — October 31st, 2025

From Outages to Order: Netflix's Approach to Database Resilience with WAL
Netflix has implemented a Write-Ahead Log (WAL) system to increase the resilience of its data platform. WAL was designed to address various challenges at Netflix, including data loss, replication system entropy, multi-partition failures, and data corruption. The system captures database mutations in a durable log before applying them to downstream services, ensuring consistency and recoverability even during outages.
October 31, 2025 — Source

The clock's ticking for MySQL 8.0 as end of life looms
Percona says more than half of installs remain on version set to lose support in 2026
October 31, 2025 — Source

Software — Database — October 30th, 2025

Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB Adds Support for InfluxDB 3 Core and Enterprise
InfluxData, the creator of the time-series database, InfluxDB, recently announced the availability of InfluxDB 3 Core and InfluxDB 3 Enterprise on Amazon Timestream for InfluxDB.
October 30, 2025 — Source

How to Get a Frequency Table of a Categorical Variable as a Data Frame
Learn how to get a frequency table of a categorical variable as a Data Frame in R using table(), cut(), count(), and plyr — with clean, ready-to-use output.
October 30, 2025 — Source

Microsoft Azure Outage Ripples Across the Internet
Azure cloud computing platform took down a long list of services from Xbox Live and Microsoft 365 to critical systems for airlines and banks.
October 30, 2025 — Source

Software — Database — October 24th, 2025

Strategic Domain-Driven Design: The Forgotten Foundation of Great Software
Most teams skip strategic DDD and focus only on code. Learn how domains, contexts, and patterns align software with business reality.
October 24, 2025 — Source

Software — Database — October 20th, 2025

Should You Use Azure Data Factory?
Yes for most ETL scenarios, ADF handles data movement, basic transformations, and scheduling well, just don't expect it to replace custom code for complex business logic.
October 20, 2025 — Source

Software — Database — October 17th, 2025

DevEx Ambient Agent With Advanced Knowledge Graph
The Agentic DevEx Assistant boosts developer productivity by automating tasks, providing contextual insights, and offering personalized career growth guidance.
October 17, 2025 — Source

PostgreSQL Full-Text Search versus Pattern Matching: A Performance Comparison
We'll analyze the performance of PostgreSQL full-text search (FTS) versus pattern and regex searching, highlighting trade-offs and execution efficiency.
October 17, 2025 — Source

SAP users still wrestling with business case for S/4HANA
A decade later, ERP giant struggles to convince legacy customers to upgrade
October 17, 2025 — Source

Software — Database — October 10th, 2025

Data API Builder 1.6 Adds HTTP Header Controls and Flexible Logging
Microsoft has released Data API Builder (DAB) 1.6, expanding the open-source runtime's capabilities for REST and GraphQL endpoints over Azure SQL, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and Cosmos DB. The new version introduces advanced HTTP header behaviours for better client-side control and a revamped logging subsystem designed to improve diagnostics and observability in both cloud and on-premise deployments.
October 10, 2025 — Source

Microsoft Azure Gets An Ultra Upgrade With NVIDIA's GB300 "Blackwell Ultra" GPUs, 4600 GPUs Connected Together To Run Over Trillion Parameter AI Models
Microsoft has announced its first at-scale production cluster featuring NVIDIA's GB300 "Blackwell Ultra" GPUs for massively-sized AI models.
October 10, 2025 — Source

Software — Database — October 8th, 2025

IBM invites CockroachDB to infest its mainframes with PostgreSQL
Vendors promote bridge to modern architecture for legacy systems, but Db2 not going anywhere just yet
October 8, 2025 — Source

Microsoft is moving GitHub over to Azure servers
It's the first major change to GitHub since losing its CEO.
October 8, 2025 — Source

Software — Database — October 3rd, 2025

Agoda Leverages ChatGPT in the CI/CD Process for SQL Stored Procedure Optimization
Agoda utilizes ChatGPT within their CI/CD process to optimize SQL stored procedures, shortening optimization times and reducing developer workload.
October 3, 2025 — Source

Software — Database — September 29th, 2025

Fork yeah: Valkey 9 sharpens edge against Redis
Open source database adds multi-tenant clustering, safer shutdowns, and eyes life beyond caching
September 29, 2025 — Source

Software — Database — September 25th, 2025

Lessons Learned From Building Production-Scale Data Conversion Pipelines
Converting large-scale enterprise data between systems is less about perfection than about making the right tradeoffs and engineering for scale and flexibility.
September 25, 2025 — Source

Software — Database — September 22nd, 2025

Azure IOT Cloud-to-Device Communication Methods
Learning and choosing the correct cloud-to-device communication method to send a message to the device using the Azure IoT Hub to build an effective IoT system.
September 22, 2025 — Source

Datadog Launches Monocle, a Unified Rust-Powered Real-Time Metrics Engine
Datadog has launched Monocle, a new real-time timeseries storage engine written in Rust. The system unifies the company's metrics storage infrastructure, delivering higher ingestion throughput and lower query latency while reducing operational complexity. Monocle replaces several generations of storage backends, addressing concurrency challenges and scaling limits that accumulated over time.
September 22, 2025 — Source

Easiest way to run LLMs locally
Most of you have interacted with a large language model (LLM) by now, or what we call AI these days. They've come a long way from being seen as hallucinating, incompetent chatbots to useful tools to have today. You're likely using an LLM from one of the Big 3 (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google), and a local LLM will likely not replace that either, but it does give you more options in privacy and control.
September 22, 2025 — Source

Scaling an Embedded Database for the Cloud -- Challenges and Trade-Offs
Stephanie Wang explains the journey of building MotherDuck, a serverless data warehouse, from the ground up using the in-process DuckDB. She discusses the challenges of cloudifying an embedded database, including coupled compute and storage, and details architectural choices and engineering tradeoffs made to enable cloud-native capabilities.
September 22, 2025 — Source

Software — Database — September 19th, 2025

User group says SAP's licensing models make cloud migration harder
DSAG criticizes separate regimes for public, private cloud, says users need more time to upgrade in uncertain times
September 19, 2025 — Source

Software — Database — September 16th, 2025

How TBMQ Uses Redis for Persistent Message Storage
Learn how we use Redis to scale MQTT session persistence in TBMQ — replacing PostgreSQL and improving performance with Lua scripts and the Lettuce async client.
September 16, 2025 — Source

Software — Database — September 9th, 2025

Tutorial: RAG at Scale With Vector Databases versus Lakehouse Architectures
Learn how to scale RAG pipelines by storing embeddings in vector databases versus lakehouses, with hands-on examples and key trade-offs.
September 9, 2025 — Source

Understanding Table Statistics in SQL Server: Importance, Performance Impact, and Practical Examples
SQL Server table statistics guide the optimizer in building efficient query plans. DBAs must keep them updated to avoid poor performance from stale data.
September 9, 2025 — Source

Software — Database — September 5th, 2025

Picking Server CPUs for Databases in 2025 is Still Complex
If you look at any major server CPU launch, you will undoubtedly see some form of claim that the CPU is good for databases. Storing and retrieving information is a basic function of traditional computing. Recently, I was at a dinner with a number of STH readers, and all of them ran databases. One individual exclaimed how they had nightmares of a 192-core processor, while another was explaining how awesome that would be to deploy.
September 5, 2025 — Source or Watch Video

Software — Database — September 4th, 2025

Microsoft simplifies Azure VM security, here's how
Microsoft has released Trusted Launch in-place upgrade support for Azure Virtual Machines and Scale Sets. This allows users to enhance security without downtime or complex migrations. It's now generally available for existing Gen1 and Gen2 VMs and Uniform scale sets, and in private preview for Flex scale sets. What's nice about this upgrade for customers is that it's provided at no additional cost.
September 4, 2025 — Source

PostgreSQL 18 eyes analytics boost and distributed future
Async I/O and UUID v7 highlights of the September release, though some SQL features are delayed
September 4, 2025 — Source

PostgreSQL 18 Release Candidate Now Available
The PostgreSQL Global Development Group has announced the availability of the first release candidate (RC) for PostgreSQL 18, with a planned general availability date of September 25, 2025. To upgrade from earlier versions, users will need to employ a major version upgrade strategy such as pg_upgrade or pg_dump/pg_restore. Several bug fixes were applied since Beta 3, including improvements to vacuumdb and guidance on reindexing full-text search indexes after upgrading. The RC is expected to be nearly identical to the final release, with minor fixes made before its general availability.
September 4, 2025 — Source

Software — Database — September 1st, 2025

Azure budget alerts go berserk after Microsoft account migration misfire
Cloud customers left reeling as forecasts leap hundreds of percent
September 1, 2025 — Source

Software — Database — August 29th, 2025

Implementing Write-Through Cache for Real-Time Data Processing: A Scalable Approach
Learn how a write-through local cache boosts performance and consistency in high-volume data streams while reducing database load.
August 29, 2025 — Source

Keep Your Search Cluster Fit: Essential Health Checks to Keep Elasticsearch Healthy
A search cluster in top notch state requires frequent monitoring for health stats. Let's look at some health checks to always keep your ES cluster fit.
August 29, 2025 — Source

Microsoft to enforce MFA for Azure resource management in October
Starting in October, Microsoft will enforce multi-factor authentication (MFA) for all Azure resource management actions to protect Azure clients from unauthorized access attempts.
August 29, 2025 — Source

OpenAI and Microsoft's contract negotiations threaten investment and potential IPO — companies battle over AGI secrecy and Azure exclusivity
Microsoft and OpenAI butt heads over ongoing contract negotiations
August 29, 2025 — Source

Ransomware Group Exploits Hybrid Cloud Gaps, Gains Full Azure Control in Enterprise Attacks
Storm-0501 has been leveraging cloud-native capabilities for data exfiltration and deletion, without deploying file-encrypting malware.
August 29, 2025 — Source

Software — Database — August 25th, 2025

Building a 3D WebXR Game with WASI Cycles: Integrating WasmEdge, Wasmtime, and Wasmer to Invoke MongoDB, Kafka, and Oracle
Develop Fullstack WASM and WASI using all the most popular frameworks, databases, frontends, etc., from top to bottom, including source code
August 25, 2025 — Source

Instacart Consolidates Search Infrastructure on PostgreSQL, Phasing out Elasticsearch
Instacart has redesigned its search infrastructure by replacing Elasticsearch with PostgreSQL, combining keyword and embedding-based retrieval in a single system. By consolidating catalog and search data into Postgres, the company aimed to simplify operations, reduce synchronization overhead, and improve precision and recall in search results.
August 25, 2025 — Source

Linux Foundation says yes to NoSQL via DocumentDB
PostgreSQL implementation of document-oriented NoSQL datastore adopted under permissive MIT license
August 25, 2025 — Source

Microsoft announces VM Conversion tool
Although Microsoft Azure offers a managed environment hosted on the cloud with many pay-as-you-go (PAYG) services, there are many organizations which prefer to keep their data on-premise because of compliance or data governance reasons. To cater to this use-case and its users, Microsoft has now announced the public preview of a VM Conversion tool.
August 25, 2025 — Source

Microsoft Azure Hardware Security to Help Thwart the World's 3rd Largest GDP
At Hot Chips 2025, Microsoft went into its Azure Hardware Security. The goal is to keep Azure secure since it is a giant cloud service. Microsoft does not just have to protect against external traffic threats, instead it has multi-tenant workloads to keep safe, and some customers want to ensure they are secure from even Azure itself.
August 25, 2025 — Source

Up to 2.5 Billion Users Impacted by Google Database Hack
Google insists the compromised database contained 'basic and mostly publicly available business information,' like business names and contact information.
August 25, 2025 — Source

Software — Database — August 22nd, 2025

Data Lake, Warehouse, or Lakehouse? Rethinking the Future of Data Architecture
AI is driving data lakes, warehouses, and lakehouses to converge into open, real-time platforms powered by Iceberg, Trino, and DuckDB.
August 22, 2025 — Source

Microsoft announces SQL Server 2025 Release Candidate 0
A private preview of SQL Server 2025 began in November 2024, followed by a public preview in May 2025. Now, it is time for the natural next step, as the tool has received its first release candidate, dubbed "RC0", bringing it one step closer to general availability, hopefully later in the year.
August 22, 2025 — Source

Software — Database — August 19th, 2025

Building a Secure and Unified Data Platform
Learn to build a secure GCP stack using a custom VPC, VM with private access, managed Cloud SQL PostgreSQL, and BigQuery for real-time federated queries.
August 19, 2025 — Source

Software — Database — August 16th, 2025

Oracle Brings Database Services Directly to AWS Cloud
AWS recently announced the general availability of Oracle Database@AWS, a new option for Oracle Exadata workloads, including Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC), within AWS. This new option allows enterprises to migrate Oracle Exadata workloads to dedicated infrastructure on AWS, simplifying cloud migration and unifying data across platforms.
August 16, 2025 — Source

Software — Database — August 11th, 2025

MSSQL Extension for VS Code 1.34.0 Deepens Copilot Agent Mode, Adds Colour‑Coded Connections
The Azure SQL team has released version 1.34.0 of the MSSQL extension for Visual Studio Code, a cross‑platform tool for developing against SQL Server, Azure SQL Database and SQL Database in Fabric. Carlos Robles, principal product manager at Microsoft, explains that the update continues the extension's goal of making SQL development conversational, visual and local by improving Copilot Agent mode, adding colour-coded connections, streamlining local container workflows and polishing the Schema Designer.
August 11, 2025 — Source

Software — Database — August 8th, 2025

Sopra Steria bags £115 million legacy extension from UK pensions department after delays to replacement ERP project
New SaaS system awaits a 'fully costed and deliverable integrated plan' before it can support 280,000 employees
August 8, 2025 — Source

Software — Database — August 4th, 2025

Microsoft's new database migration tool has a temporary security cost
Microsoft has announced that Azure Database Migration Service (DMS) now includes a generally available schema migration feature that simplifies moving data by automatically including schemas, tables, indexes, views and other database objects. With this feature, Microsoft hopes to reduce manual effort and ensure consistency between source and target databases.
August 4, 2025 — Source

Software — Database — July 29th, 2025

Varonis unveils Next-Gen Database Activity Monitoring for agentless database security and compliance
Varonis released Next-Gen Database Activity Monitoring (DAM), a new approach to database security that deploys quickly and overcomes the challenges legacy vendors face in preventing data breaches and ensuring regulatory compliance.
July 29, 2025 — Source

Software — Database — July 22nd, 2025

Customers fret about downtime with hyperscalers' PostgreSQL services
Smaller vendors offering alternatives cash in concerns
July 22, 2025 — Source

Software — Database — July 18th, 2025

Not so SaaSy now: Oracle sugars BYOL deals as AWS database tie-in goes live
Big Red incentivizes perpetual licenses with 76% savings as it parks racks in hyperscaler datacenters
July 18, 2025 — Source

Software — Database — July 17th, 2025

Rapid AWS Prototyping With LocalStack: A Developer's Guide to Building AWS PoCs Locally
This article shows how to use LocalStack to build and test AWS-based Proof of Concepts (PoCs) entirely on your local machine.
July 17, 2025 — Source

Software — Database — July 14th, 2025

Understanding Time Series Databases
Time series databases (TSDBs) are specialized database systems optimized for storing, retrieving, and analyzing chronological data.
July 14, 2025 — Source

Software — Database — July 12th, 2025

Microsoft Launches Azure DevOps MCP Server in Public Preview
The release enables GitHub Copilot to access and interact with Azure DevOps project data using natural language prompts within developer environments such as VS Code.
July 12, 2025 — Source

Software — Database — July 11th, 2025

Indexed Views in SQL Server: A Production DBA's Complete Guide
Learn indexed views in SQL Server from a seasoned DBA's perspective with practical examples, performance testing, and best practices for database optimization.
July 11, 2025 — Source

More license upheaval to come after SAP kills RISE with SAP products, users warn
Intro of package for cloud ERP is creating challenges, and more changes likely next year
July 11, 2025 — Source

Scaling Multi-Tenant Go Apps: Choosing the Right Database Partitioning Approach
Multi-tenant applications face a fundamental challenge: how to efficiently store and query data for tenants of vastly different sizes?
July 11, 2025 — Source

Testing the MongoDB MCP Server Using SingleStore Kai
In this article, learn how to set up and test the MongoDB MCP Server with SingleStore Kai using MCPHost, notebooks, and real-time queries powered by Ollama LLM.
July 11, 2025 — Source

When MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle Argue: Doris JDBC Catalog Acts as the Peacemaker
What is this magical Doris JDBC Catalog? It's like a universal key in the data world, opening the doors to multiple databases with one key.
July 11, 2025 — Source

Software — Database — July 10th, 2025

Write-back to aging UK health systems lessens benefits of Palantir-based platform
Controversial system requires local NHS investment to maximize productivity
July 10, 2025 — Source

Software — Database — July 7th, 2025

Azure AI Foundry Agent Service Gains Model Context Protocol Support in Preview
Microsoft recently announced the preview release of Model Context Protocol (MCP) support within its Azure AI Foundry Agent Service. The service, which became publicly available in May, aims to significantly boost interoperability for Artificial Intelligence (AI) agents.
July 7, 2025 — Source

Software — Database — July 5th, 2025

Atlassian's 4 Million PostgreSQL Database Migration: When Standard Cloud Strategies Fail
Atlassian recently migrated 4 million Jira databases to Amazon Aurora, intending to reduce costs and improve the reliability of its Jira Cloud platform. Due to the large number of files involved and the constraints of managed services, the team developed a custom tool to orchestrate the process, as traditional cloud migration strategies were not viable.
July 5, 2025 — Source

Software — Database — June 23rd, 2025

Building an SQL to DataFrame Converter With ANTLR
ANTLR is a powerful tool that lets you define grammars and build translators. Migrating SQL to DataFrames is tough. ANTLR helps by automating the conversion.
June 23, 2025 — Source

Private equity types to snap up NoSQL biz Couchbase
$1.5 billion offered for database company valued at $1.2 billion four years ago
June 23, 2025 — Source

Software — Database — June 18th, 2025

ScyllaDB paddles toward scale and profit with Raft-powered upgrade
Cassandra rival releases new DBaaS relying on consensus algorithm
June 18, 2025 — Source

Secure DevOps in Serverless Architecture
Mitigating risk in cloud Environments and enabling DevSecOps development lifecycle, enforcing least privilege access, and continuously monitoring workflows.
June 18, 2025 — Source

Software — Database — June 16th, 2025

Monitoring and Managing the Growth of the MSDB System Database in SQL Server
The msdb system database in SQL Server is crucial for managing and maintaining tasks such as job scheduling, alerts, and database mail. Learn more about it.
June 16, 2025 — Source

Safeguarding Cloud Databases: Best Practices and Risks Engineers Must Avoid
This article explores database security practices in cloud environments, highlighting risks like misconfigurations, insufficient encryption, and excessive privileges.
June 16, 2025 — Source

Software — Database — June 13th, 2025

Exploring the IBM App Connect Enterprise SELECT, ROW and THE Functions in ESQL
This article is all about the different ways you can use SELECT in IBM App Connect Enterprise: returning arrays, rows, or just that one perfect value.
June 13, 2025 — Source

Software — Database — June 6th, 2025

Data Storage and Indexing in PostgreSQL: Practical Guide With Examples and Performance Insights
Explore how PostgreSQL handles large data using TOAST and improves query speed with indexes like B-tree, GIN, and BRIN, cutting query times by over 90%.
June 6, 2025 — Source

Software — Database — June 3rd, 2025

What is Microsoft Fabric for Azure Cloud (Beyond the Buzz) and How It Competes with Snowflake and Databricks
Microsoft Fabric is a lakehouse built on OneLake Storage in Azure Cloud and competes with Databricks and Snowflake for data analytics and AI.
June 3, 2025 — Source

Software — Database — May 28th, 2025

Memory-Optimized Tables: Implementation Strategies for SQL Server
Through practical implementation guidance and real-world examples, learn how this in-memory technology can deliver 5- 30x performance improvements for OLTP workloads.
May 28, 2025 — Source

Software — Database — May 27th, 2025

Data Lake versus Warehouse versus Lakehouse versus Mart: Choosing the Right Architecture for Your Business
Choosing between data lakes, warehouses, lakehouses, and marts depends on your business needs and data maturity. This article breaks each down with real-world examples.
May 27, 2025 — Source

Software — Database — May 23rd, 2025

Distributed Consensus: Paxos versus Raft and Modern Implementations
In this post we'll explore the fundamentals of distributed consensus, compare Paxos and Raft, and examine recent implementations like Kafka Raft.
May 23, 2025 — Source

Implementing API Design First in .NET for Efficient Development, Testing, and CI/CD
Even after a decade of API design first being mainstream, the .NET world is still more code first. If you are in same boat then please follow along.
May 23, 2025 — Source

Microsoft stitches transactional databases to Fabric analytics system
SQL Server and Cosmos DB added to data lake platform as lure for building AI features into transactional systems
May 23, 2025 — Source

Software — Database — May 13th, 2025

DGS GraphQL and Spring Boot
This article explain how to use and implement DGS GraphQL using Spring Boot, and the GraphQL dashboard to make specific REST requests.
May 13, 2025 — Source

Software — Database — May 9th, 2025

Power BI Embedded Analytics — Part 2: Power BI Embedded Overview
This article is part of a four-part series. This article covers Power BI Embedded solutions, licensing, authentication, and APIs.
May 9, 2025 — Source

Revolutionizing Financial Monitoring: Building a Team Dashboard With OpenObserve
Find out how building a unified OpenObserve dashboard transformed my financial monitoring journey—cutting downtime, lowering cost, and enabling proactive operations.
May 9, 2025 — Source

The Human Side of Logs: What Unstructured Data Is Trying to Tell You
Metrics show what happened. Unstructured data shows why. In this article, we learn why we don't just ignore the messy signals.
May 9, 2025 — Source

Software — Database — May 6th, 2025

30 years of MySQL, the database that changed the world
From ubiquitous go-to system for early Noughties startups to a legacy like no other
May 6, 2025 — Source

Software — Database — April 28th, 2025

Building Event-Driven Go Applications With Azure Cosmos DB and Azure Functions
Learn how to build serverless Azure Functions with Go, using Cosmos DB triggers and Azure OpenAI for generating embeddings in this step-by-step guide.
April 28, 2025 — Source

Software — Database — April 25th, 2025

Azure MCP Server Enters Public Preview: Expanding AI Agent Capabilities
Microsoft has announced the Public Preview of the open-source Azure MCP Server, a new tool designed to enhance the capabilities of AI agents by providing access to Azure resources. The Azure MCP Server allows AI agents to interact with Azure services such as file storage, databases, and logs, and execute CLI commands.
April 25, 2025 — Source

Software — Database — April 22nd, 2025

How to Restore a Transaction Log Backup in SQL Server
Learn to restore SQL Server transaction log backups step by step, including prerequisites, backup types, troubleshooting errors, and best practices.
April 22, 2025 — Source

Software — General Information — April 22nd, 2025

Relax, AWS reassessing colo lease talks is just 'routine capacity management'
Hyperscaler says there's no decrease in demand, it's just looking for good deals
April 22, 2025 — Source

Software — Database — April 4th, 2025

Home Office haunted by 25-year-old asylum system
'Full benefit' of replacement will not be realized until old one is shut down, projects watchdog warns
April 4, 2025 — Source

How Doris Connects to Multiple Databases for Federated Analytics and Data Migration
Learn how to use Apache Doris's JDBC Catalog to connect multiple databases, enable federated analytics, and migrate data efficiently.
April 4, 2025 — Source

Software — Database — April 2nd, 2025

Lessons from Migrating an Oracle Database to AWS RDS
Migrating an on-prem Oracle database to AWS RDS brings cost savings and automation but comes with performance tuning limits, upgrade challenges, and DBA restrictions.
April 2, 2025 — Source

Software — Database — March 31st, 2025

The Notion Formula Ladder: 5 Steps to Proficiency
Notion formulas are a powerful tool for managing data, automating workflows, and enhancing the functionality of your workspace. The video from Thomas Frank Explains explores Notion formulas across five levels of complexity, offering a structured approach to mastering their use. Whether you're a beginner or an advanced user, you'll discover practical insights into formulas, variables, conditional logic, and more, allowing you to optimize your Notion experience.
March 31, 2025 — Source or Watch Video

Software — Database — March 21st, 2025

How Doris SQL Cache Saved My Daily Morning Meetings
Doris SQL Cache can intelligently remember query results and make repetitive queries as smooth as silk, thus significantly improving query performance.
March 21, 2025 — Source

Software — General Information — March 21st, 2025

Automating HCP Terraform Workspaces: a New Approach to Team Onboarding
HashiCorp Cloud Platform (HCP) recently elaborated on automating the Terraform workspace creation using a TFE provider and building an onboarding module. This approach addresses the challenge of manual workspace creation, which has been a bottleneck for teams scaling their operations.
March 21, 2025 — Source

Google Cloud Launches A4 VMs with NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs for AI Workloads
Google Cloud has unveiled its new A4 virtual machines (VMs) in preview, powered by NVIDIA's Blackwell B200 GPUs, to address the increasing demands of advanced artificial intelligence (AI) workloads. The offering aims to accelerate AI model training, fine-tuning, and inference by combining Google's infrastructure with NVIDIA's hardware.
March 21, 2025 — Source

SmolDocling : Streamlined OCR Document Conversion and Lightweight Understanding
Have you ever found yourself wrestling with bulky OCR tools that demand more resources than your system can handle, only to deliver results that don't quite fit your specific needs? It's a common frustration for anyone trying to streamline document processing workflows, especially when the task at hand requires precision and adaptability. Whether you're dealing with receipts, legal documents, or complex PDFs, the struggle to balance efficiency with accuracy can feel like an uphill battle.
March 21, 2025 — Source

Software — Database — March 17th, 2025

Best Practices for Data Warehouses in Microsoft Fabric
Leverage Microsoft Fabric for unified data warehousing; follow best practices for schema, ingestion, transformation, security, optimization, and continuous monitoring.
March 17, 2025 — Source

Celonis slaps SAP with lawsuit claiming it's gatekeeping customer data
Process mining specialist accuses the ERP giant of rigging game with fees, restrictions, and a closed ecosystem
March 17, 2025 — Source

Software — Database — March 13th, 2025

City council rejects inquiry into £130M Oracle IT disaster
Opposition faults leadership as officers accused of misleading councillors
March 13, 2025 — Source

How To Prevent WordPress SQL Injection Attacks
What makes WordPress websites such a prime target for hackers? Anders Johansson delves into how WordPress SQL injection attacks work and shares strategies for removing and preventing them.
March 13, 2025 — Source

Software — Database — March 12th, 2025

MariaDB reboots DBaaS plans with open source at the core
Five years after it launched its first database service, the MySQL fork is trying again
March 12, 2025 — Source

Software — Database — March 11th, 2025

CRM Database Explained: Definition, Benefits & Best Practices
Learn what a CRM database is, its key features, types, benefits, and best practices, as well as how to choose the right one for your business.
March 11, 2025 — Source

Europe's largest council kept auditors in the dark on Oracle rollout fiasco for 10 months
It took a whistleblower to expose disastrous ERP go-live
March 11, 2025 — Source

Software — Database — February 18th, 2025

Oracle extends 19c database support to 2032, making it 'longest strategic release'
Meanwhile, on-prem version of 23ai remains uncertain
February 18, 2025 — Source

UK electrical utility seeks partner for £81M SAP overhaul as support deadline closes in
Integrations with third-party software await chosen provider
February 18, 2025 — Source

Software — Database — February 14th, 2025

Critical PostgreSQL bug tied to zero-day attack on US Treasury
High-complexity bug unearthed by infoseccers, as Rapid7 probes exploit further
February 14, 2025 — Source

PostgreSQL flaw exploited as zero-day in BeyondTrust breach
Rapid7's vulnerability research team says attackers exploited a PostgreSQL security flaw as a zero-day to breach the network of privileged access management company BeyondTrust in December.
February 14, 2025 — Source

Software — DataBase — Resources

A practical comparison of Map-Reduce in MongoDB and RavenDB
Over the past week I've been learning about MongoDB. in my adventures with Node.js I am now at the point where I need some kind of data store.
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Access database repair
Access database repair tool for the recovery of corrupt databases in Microsoft Access 95, 97, 2000, 2002 (XP), 2003, 2007, 2010 and 2013. It recovers all data from a corrupt mdb, mde, accdb or accde database even in the hardest cases.
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Argentum Software
Argentum Corporation — Cataloging Software, Backup Software, Database Software.
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Convert MySQL to MSSQL
MS Access to MySQL converter tool safely converts the database tables or records with password protected records.
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Database DebunkIing
Site dedicated to dispelling fallacies and misconceptions prevailing in the database industry.
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Database Normalization and Table structures
Normalisation is the term used to describe how you break a file down into tables to create a database. There are 3 or 4 major steps involved known as 1NF (First Normal Form), 2NF (Second Normal Form), 3NF (Third Normal Form) and BCNF (Boyce-Codd Normal Form).
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Database Research at Waterloo
Research areas include traditional relational database systems, complex objects, geometric data, text, and real-time data.
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David Consulting Group
DCG services include software metrics, software process improvement and outsourcing.
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DecisionDatabases.com
DecisionDatabases.com is proficient in providing syndicated research report, customized research reports, company profiles and industry databases across multiple domains.
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Erlangen University Department of Database Systems
Research projects include data warehousing, scientific database management, workflow management, and distributed data.
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InfluxData
An open-source distributed time series database with no external dependencies.
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MySQL in Docker with Java Hibernate
Recently, I started working on a new server project at work, and wanted to be able to run a local dev environment with Docker. this has become my normal flow for a couple of server projects because of how easy Docker is to work with, and especially for the fact that I don't need to set up any of the supporting structure on my machine to run the server.
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TechnicalSharp
technical solution for you
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Temporal Database Concepts
Defines a wide range of terms and concepts specific to the temporal database research community.
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