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 ...

Data isn't just oil anymore; it’s the oxygen your enterprise breathes. In 2026, the volume of data flowing through the average mid-to-large enterprise isn't just massive—it’s complex, messy, and ...

I am a Senior Member of Technical Staff at Salesforce, where I build AI-driven enterprise solutions that integrate LLM. I am a Senior Member of Technical Staff at Salesforce, where I build AI-driven ...

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The recent announcement of Surge Protection gives Fabric/Power BI capacity admins a way to restrict the impact of background operations on a capacity, preventing them from causing throttling. However, ...

Your browser does not support the audio element. In SQL Server, the tempdb database is the unsung hero behind countless operations—storing temporary tables ...

Our previous blog article, “The Part of PostgreSQL We Hate the Most,” discussed the problems caused by everyone’s favorite street-strength DBMS multi-version concurrency control (MVCC) implementation.

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 ...