I've been thinking a lot lately about what it actually takes to make an AI agent genuinely useful for database work, both for administration and for application access to the data tier. Writing the ...

The open source MySQL spin-off has steadily added features all its own. Here are five good reasons to switch to MariaDB. MariaDB may have started as a MySQL fork, following Oracle’s acquisition of ...

Since you are in the industry, especially in the network and admin team, you need to know a few vulnerabilities, such as injection attacks to stay alert from them. Each attack or vulnerability has a ...

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Anthropic Claude Opus 5 is now available in Microsoft 365 Copilot, bringing another leading model for complex reasoning, analysis, and content creation. You can tackle challenging projects with deeper ...

Column-oriented databases and row-oriented databases are both methods for storing data in data warehouses. They both use tables with rows containing entries and columns for the data about the entry.

This article was written in collaboration with Bohan Zhang and originally appeared on the OtterTune website. In this article, we’ll dive into MVCC: what it is, how PostgreSQL does it, and why it is ...