The world tried to kill Andy off but he had to stay alive to to talk about what happened with databases in 2025.

In 2026, contextual memory will no longer be a novel technique; it will become table stakes for many operational agentic AI ...

The query optimizer is a crucial component in a relational database system and is responsible for finding a good execution plan for a SQL query. For cloud database service providers, the importance of ...

Vector databases (DBs), once specialist research instruments, have become widely used infrastructure in just a few years. They power today's semantic search, recommendation engines, anti-fraud ...

The importance of storing, organizing, and using data has increased every year. We are living in a data era where being competitive and agile means being able to manage data from a wide range of ...

When it comes to how and why early relational trauma can be so damaging to the individual who endures it, I like to use the metaphor of “the house of life” with my clients and my online course ...

Microsoft Fabric is ushering in a new era of database management through its innovative autonomous SQL databases. These innovative databases are designed to streamline your management tasks while ...

Cardinality estimation (CE) is crucial in optimizing query performance in relational databases. It involves predicting the number of intermediate results a database query will return, directly ...

Relational databases are integral to many digital systems, providing structured data storage across various sectors, such as e-commerce, healthcare, and social media. Their table-based structure ...

Abstract: The lack of information within relational databases expressed as NULL values presents a problem in ensuring the quality of data and the information retrieved by SQL queries. This is so ...

Data scientists, engineers and managers having been working for the past 50 years at methodologies to gain better business insights from large stores of data. Despite advances in cloud data storage ...