Yugabyte announced it is releasing YugabyteDB 2026.1 with enhanced AI capabilities along with YugabyteDB AMP (Agentic Multitenant PostgreSQL) for true serverless, scale-to-zero PostgreSQL where every ...

SQL Injection (SQLi) is a type of security vulnerability that allows an attacker to interfere with the queries that an application makes to its database. SQL Injection is one of the most common and ...

Analyzing Oracle execution plans is a core skill for database professionals aiming to optimize SQL performance. Execution plans reveal how Oracle retrieves data—whether it uses indexes, full table ...

The TinyTDS gem is meant to serve the extremely common use-case of connecting, querying and iterating over results to Microsoft SQL Server from Ruby using the FreeTDS's DB-Library API. TinyTDS offers ...

Understanding how SQL indexes work internally is key to appreciating their impact on database performance. Below is an in-depth look at the various processes involved when working with indexes. 1.

Part of the SQL Server 2022 blog series. The main difference between tempdb and other databases is the workload. With tempdb we are constantly creating and destroying objects such as temp tables. This ...

I've said it before and I'll say it again: If you want to speed up your application, don't look at your code, look at your data access. The two slowest things you can do in application development are ...

One of the most interesting trends in the computer world during the past few years has been the rapid growth of NoSQL databases. The term may be accurate, in that NoSQL databases don't use SQL in ...

This blog post was authored by: Sahaj Saini, PM on the Microsoft Analytics Platform System (APS) team. In this blog post, we’ll provide a quick overview of Symmetric Multi-Processing (SMP) vs.

The first installment of this TechRepublic series focused on C# developer interview questions. It generated a lively discussion on the merits of such questions and the different approaches to ...