Recent SQL Server 2025, Azure SQL, SSMS 22 and Fabric announcements highlight new event streaming and vector search capabilities, plus expanding monitoring and ontology tooling -- with tradeoffs in ...

Arrow-Based SQL Engine for Iceberg: Dremio's query engine was built natively on Apache Arrow, the open columnar standard Dremio co-created, making it uniquely suited for Iceberg workloads. It ...

KeeperDB integrates database access into a zero-trust PAM platform, reducing credential sprawl and improving security, ...

Modern semantic search does not have to require a separate vector database. Data architects, database engineers, developers, or platform leaders can integrate Vertex AI and Cloud SQL vector indexes ...

Wasm, PGlite, OPFS, and other new tech bring robust data storage to the browser, Electrobun brings Bun to desktop apps, ...

Open-source platform with 30+ MCP tools lets AI agents autonomously create pipelines, query databases, search vector ...

Build your first fully functional, Java-based AI agent using familiar Spring conventions and built-in tools from Spring AI.

Proprietary warehouses delivered scale — but at the cost of control, predictable pricing, and real flexibility. Enterprises are doing the math.

So many cool Fabric features get announced at Fabcon that it’s easy to miss some of them. The fact that you can now not only generate Excel files from Fabric Dataflows Gen2, but that you have so much ...

Oracle has launched new agentic AI innovations for Oracle AI Database that will help customers rapidly build, deploy, and scale secure agentic AI ...

SQL Server backups cannot be restored to older versions directly. Use Export and Import Data-Tier Application for cross-version database migration. Reconfigure permissions, logins, and connection ...

Another year passes. I was hoping to write more articles instead of just these end-of-the-year screeds, but I almost died in the spring semester, and it sucked up my time. Nevertheless, I will go ...