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How Oracle AI Transforms SQL Performance and Accuracy

Today, about 20-40% of developer time is spent on debugging and maintenance, which is why Oracle AI is redefining SQL optimization altogether. As AI-driven automation accelerates across the Oracle ecosystem, Oracle AI Database 26ai brings machine learning, generative AI, and real-time analytics directly into the SQL engine: reducing the need for manual tuning with built-in, AI-powered automation.

How to Connect Your MySQL Instance to a Grafana Datasource

Grafana’s MySQL datasource makes it easy to turn raw database rows into clean, interactive dashboards. Whether you're testing out a new monitoring setup or experimenting with time-series data, MySQL + Grafana gives you a powerful foundation for building visualizations quickly.

Spotify's performance & control across large monitoring environments with VictoriaMetrics

When your active time series is in the billions and the total number of data points you need to monitor runs into the tens of trillions, you need a high-performance observability solution with operational simplicity. Streaming behemoth Spotify is one such case. Their observability team chose VictoriaMetrics as the fastest monitoring and observability solution on the market.

Harness Database DevOps Now Supports Google AlloyDB

Harness Database DevOps now natively supports Google AlloyDB, enabling enterprises to manage PostgreSQL-compatible schema changes with CI/CD, GitOps, and policy-driven governance. Teams gain faster, safer, and fully auditable database delivery while reducing operational risk and manual overhead across environments. As organizations double down on cloud modernization, Google Cloud’s AlloyDB for PostgreSQL is quickly becoming the preferred engine for mission-critical applications.

VictoriaMetrics Achieves Red Hat OpenShift Operator Certification

VictoriaMetrics has achieved Red Hat OpenShift Certification, awarded to Red Hat partners who meet requirements for delivering a scalable, supported, and secure operator designed for enterprise cloud deployments. VictoriaMetrics available on the Red Hat OpenShift OperatorHub The program certified VictoriaMetrics as a solution that allows for portability and operational efficiency across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

dbForge AI Assistant Overview for SQL Developers

Meet dbForge AI Assistant — your AI-powered copilot for SQL coding, query optimization, explanations, troubleshooting, and conversion of natural language to SQL code. This overview shows how the Assistant works inside dbForge products and how it helps developers, DBAs, analysts, and teams increase productivity. Key features: Context-aware SQL generation Conversion of natural language to SQL Query optimization SQL explanations Troubleshooting and error insights AI chat for SQL-related questions Optional web search.

Building dbRosetta Part 6: Let's Make a Web Page

Once more in this series, we’re moving into areas where I’m not entirely comfortable. I haven’t built a PHP plugin and web page, ever. However, we’re going to put the LLM/AI and associated agents to work on this task. As with so much else when working with AI, it all starts with the prompt, so let’s go there.