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AI Agents Observability with OpenTelemetry and the VictoriaMetrics Stack

Nov 7, 2025 By Alexander Marshalov In VictoriaMetrics

Nowadays, AI agents are becoming more and more popular and often deployed as part of production systems. However, this rapid adoption brings unique observability challenges that require flexible solutions. On the one hand, AI agents are fundamentally just like any other software services that produce the same classic observability signals we’re familiar with: metrics, logs, and traces.

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Simple Talk Podcast - Coffee Chat with John Sterrett

Nov 6, 2025 By Redgate Software In Redgate

Simple Talk Podcast – Coffee Chat with John Sterrett Description: Steve chats with John Sterrett, CEO of ProcureSQL, about his true love for data from a young age, how SQL Saturday and community events inspired him to start his own company, ProcureSQL’s use of AI to provide more value, and the impacts of work on relationships - plus much more!

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Replication Job Monitoring Support in Redgate Monitor

Nov 5, 2025 By Nick Coombe In Redgate

Whether it’s a stalled Log Reader Agent, a conflicting insert on the subscriber, or a failed cleanup job bloating the distribution database, Redgate Monitor now brings SQL Server replication issues to light early, before performance or reliability are affected. In many SQL Server environments, replication remains essential for offloading reporting and analytics workloads, or for maintaining local and synchronized data copies across regions.

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Building dbRosetta Using AI: Part 2, Defining the Project & Prompt Templates

Nov 5, 2025 By Grant Fritchey In Redgate

This is the next installment of the series on building a database and an application called dbRosetta using AI/LLM. Part 1 introduces the concept. THE AI PICKED DATABASE FIRST! Look, I talk databases at this thing a lot, so it probably knows my own preference, but when I asked it, it chose to build a database separate from the code. Let’s get into it.

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Unleashing Powerful Analytics: Technical Deep Dive into Cassandra-Spark Integration

Nov 5, 2025 By Abhinav Jain In OpsMatters

Apache Cassandra has long been favored by organizations dealing with large volumes of data that require distributed storage and processing capabilities. Its decentralized architecture and tunable consistency levels make it ideal for handling massive datasets across multiple nodes with minimal latency. On the other hand, Apache Spark excels in processing and analyzing data in-memory, making it an excellent complement to Cassandra for performing real-time analytics and batch processing tasks.

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Survey finds one in three DBAs eye career move as demands on role increase

Nov 4, 2025 By SolarWinds In SolarWinds

With AI, training, and unified tools, DBAs can trade firefighting for high-impact, value-driven work.

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SQL Prompt Product Updates - November 2025

Nov 4, 2025 By Adam Atreides In Redgate

SQL Prompt’s November release brings new features to SQL Prompt AI, bug and performance fixes to SQL History and support for SQL Server 2025 preview.

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Grafana Tempo: Setup, Configuration, and Best Practices

Nov 4, 2025 By Anjali Udasi In Last9

As systems grow, understanding how a request moves across multiple services becomes harder. Traces help bring this picture together by showing the exact path a request takes, along with the timings that matter. Grafana Tempo is built for this kind of workload. It stores traces efficiently, works well with OpenTelemetry, and keeps the operational overhead low.

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Terminate Idle Connections Automatically

Nov 4, 2025 By Aiven In Aiven

Learn how to automatically close inactive connections in your Aiven for PostgreSQL service using pgBouncer’s idle timeout setting. In this demo, we’ll walk through the Aiven Console to adjust the server_idle_timeout value in pgBouncer’s advanced configuration, helping you optimise performance and free up resources by terminating idle connections faster.

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New Devart Python Connectors Add Broader Compatibility and Stronger Security

Nov 3, 2025 By DAC Team In Devart

We are thrilled to announce a major update to our Python Connectors line. The release adds support for Python 3.14, PostgreSQL 18, MySQL 9, and MariaDB 12, introduces modern authentication and security options, and delivers notable performance gains across several connectors.

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