As Couchbase launches its AI Data Plane, the more interesting question is whether the NoSQL-era strengths it built for ...

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 ...

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The system-to-administrator ratio is commonly used as a rough metric to understand administrative costs in high-scale services. With smaller, less automated services this ratio can be as low as 2:1, ...

Proper drive formatting is a foundational step for achieving optimal SQL Server performance. It's not just about getting the drive ready; it's about aligning the operating system's I/O behavior with ...

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When migrating from a mainframe DB2 to Microsoft SQL Server, especially when considering Change Data Capture (CDC), there are several considerations and approaches you can take: Understand CDC ...

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 ...

In part 1 of my SQL Server 2022 features series, you learned about the improvements to the cardinality estimator component of query optimization. In this installment, you will learn about another ...