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What Is Azure SQL?

Modern cloud solutions mean much more than just data storage. Cloud technologies cover virtual services, including analytics, databases, networking, servers, and storage via the internet. Such a giant as Microsoft is among the most prominent cloud providers with its Azure platform. “Platform as a Service,” or PaaS, is a popular solution for database specialists. It is a powerful database engine that allows you to perform most database management routines.

How to Convert MS Access Database to MySQL

Microsoft Access is a relational system for managing databases that is used to create small-scale databases for a single user or small teams. MySQL is a robust open-source relational database management system for more extensive data volumes and web applications. With the help of dbForge Studio for MySQL, you can easily migrate data from Microsoft Access to MySQL and preserve data and functional integrity.

Vintage Control: Inside the New Era of Wine Store Efficiency

Wine inventory used to be a constant headache-thousands of SKUs, shifting vintages, scattered records. Traditional retail tools couldn't handle the specific requirements. Today's advanced wine POS systems change that. Their tools accurately manage inventory, automatically reorder supplies, and keep all product information in one place. From RFID tracking to mobile access, wine retailers now have full visibility into what's in stock and what's missing. Customers get a better experience thanks to loyalty programs, special offers just for them, and our CRM system. It's all about improving the experience.

11 Best AI Coding Assistants: Top Tools Every Developer Needs in 2025

You’ve heard it before: ‘AI coding assistants aren’t here to replace you.’ And yes, it’s true, they’re not. They’re here to save your brain from 3 AM logic loops and the same bug fixes you’ve solved countless times. As application and database systems become more complex and timelines shrink, forward-thinking developers, data analysts, and DBAs are turning to these tools.

Salesforce Data Integration Tools

Salesforce integration tools are now foundational to enterprise performance. With the average company managing over 1,000 apps, Salesforce must operate as a unified control layer that governs data, workflows, and customer intelligence across the stack. However, in reality most teams never realize this potential. According to Salesforce, 95% of IT leaders face integration challenges, and more than half say these issues directly block them from meeting customer expectations.

Best HubSpot Connector Apps

HubSpot connectors are the backbone of modern CRM operations, marketing, and sales. These powerful tools let you break down data silos, sync information across platforms, and build automated workflows. Whether you’re connecting databases, analytics tools, or custom-built systems, HubSpot connector apps can help you get more out of every lead, campaign, and customer interaction. As great as these tools are, not all will work for you.

FIPS 140-3 Compatible Builds for VictoriaMetrics Enterprise Components

VictoriaMetrics introduces FIPS 140-3 compatible builds for its components, starting with version 1.117.0. These builds utilize Google’s FIPS 140-3 validated BoringCrypto module. This is critical for customers in regulated environments (federal government, finance, healthcare) to meet FIPS 140-3 cryptographic requirements for data encryption, TLS, and secure communications.

A Beginner's Guide To Amazon RDS Pricing

Amazon promotes its RDS as a scalable, high-performing alternative to traditional databases, backed by automation and reliability. It’s popular among teams looking to offload maintenance and improve availability. But while the service is robust, costs can rise quickly depending on how it’s used. This guide explains how Amazon RDS pricing works. In addition, we’ll discuss how to understand, optimize, and view your RDS costs. But first…

Top Tableau Database Connectors in 2025

Tableau database connectors are changing the narrative of how to work with data from your dashboard. A few years ago, the ability to pull data from almost any source, including your company’s internal database or even a web API, and immediately convert it into powerful, interactive dashboards sounded too good to be true. Today, with Tableau database connectors, you can pull data from virtually any data source and convert it instantly into a powerful dashboard.
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MariaDB Monitoring for Enhancing Performance, Availability, and Security

As organizations increasingly rely on MariaDB for their critical applications, ensuring optimal database performance, availability, and security becomes essential. This whitepaper provides a strategic guide to mastering MariaDB monitoring, helping IT teams proactively detect and resolve issues before they impact business operations.

Rollbacks, Red Eyes And Unreliable Deployments

We spoke to data professionals from a range of industries about the impact of unreliable database deployments — not just on their systems, but on their workload, time, and well-being. From delayed releases to weekend firefighting, and the fallout for teams and customers, they share the day-to-day pressures they face and the small changes that help make deployments, and life, a little less stressful. What stood out from these conversations?

VictoriaLogs Unleashed: Cluster Version Now Available for Exceptional, Linear Scaling

You asked, and we listened! We’re thrilled to announce the release of the VictoriaLogs Cluster version – one of the most requested and anticipated updates from our user community. This marks a significant leap forward for VictoriaLogs, empowering users to handle log volumes and ingestion rates far beyond the limits of a single node.

Flavors of PostgreSQL: Choosing the Right Database for Your Next Build

In this deep dive, we’ll explore the modern PostgreSQL landscape—from core extensions to cloud-native forks—and help you confidently choose the right implementation based on your technical and business needs. AIVEN DATA PLATFORM The Aiven Platform is more than a collection of open source services for streaming, storing and analyzing data. The platform ensures that all services run reliably and securely in the clouds of your choice, are observable, and can easily be integrated with each other and with external 3rd party tools.

Entity Developer Overview: Visual ORM Designer for .NET

Entity Developer is a powerful visual ORM designer for.NET that helps you build, edit, and manage your data models faster and more efficiently. Whether you're using EF Core, NHibernate, LinqConnect, or classic Entity Framework, Entity Developer streamlines the process with rich design tools, customizable templates, and full integration with Visual Studio. In this video, we’ll walk you through the key features and show how you can.

Meet dbForge AI Assistant: Your Invaluable Sidekick That Reinvents SQL Coding

If writing SQL code is part of your daily work, you won’t be surprised by things like context-aware code completion, as-you-type syntax validation, and debugging. All of them are designed to enhance and speed up your SQL coding. But what if we said that you could completely reshape your experience with an AI-powered assistant? What if you could have your error-free queries generated, analyzed, and optimized in just a couple of moments?

Grafana Tempo 2.8 release: memory improvements, new TraceQL features, and more

Grafana Tempo 2.8 is officially here, delivering new TraceQL features, performance improvements, and bug fixes, as well as some breaking changes. Watch the video below to learn more about the TraceQL features, or continue reading to get a quick overview of these and other updates. If you’re looking for something more in-depth for all of the changes that happened in this release, head over to the Grafana Tempo 2.8 release notes or the changelog.

Compare two PostgreSQL databases with Redgate pgCompare

In this 3 minute video, Redgate Advocate Grant Fritchey walks you through Redgate's latest comparison technology, Redgate pgCompare. With Redgate pgCompare, you can quickly compare two PostgreSQL databases and synchronize the changes. Redgate pgCompare is in preview and available to download for free. Take it for a spin and share your feedback.

Moving from Relational to Time Series Databases

I’ve been building apps with SQL Server for years. Everything worked well until I started dealing with sensor data, stock trade volume, and IoT telemetry. As the volume of time-stamped records grew into the millions, I saw relational databases struggling with workloads they weren’t designed for. That’s when I explored time series databases. The performance improvements were significant, but what surprised me was the mental shift required.

Integrations made easy with VictoriaMetrics Cloud

VictoriaMetrics Cloud continues to evolve as the most efficient, scalable and open platform in the observability landscape. In our last Q1 update blogpost, we shared new features such as seamless OpenTelemetry integrations, new Organizations support, and improvements in the Explore UI and APIs. This time we wanted to take a minute to showcase how we’re taking the interoperability journey very seriously. Integrations in VictoriaMetrics Cloud Haven’t tried VictoriaMetrics Cloud yet?

What's new in SQL Prompt Version 11.0

We’re excited to announce the release of SQL Prompt Version 11.0. SQL Prompt Version 11.0 adds support for SQL Server Management Studio 21 (SSMS 21) and includes compatibility with Azure Synapse Dedicated SQL Pools—building on our existing support for Azure Synapse Serverless SQL Pools. Read on to find out more about this new support along with other recent improvements to SQL Prompt.

Comparison of the Best and Most Popular NoSQL Databases

Traditional databases store data in structured tables, whereas NoSQL (non-SQL) databases use more flexible, non-tabular storage methods. NoSQL databases can store a wider range of data types, including document stores, wide columns, key-value stores, and graphs. These databases first emerged in the late 2000s to support massive horizontal scaling and high-throughput workloads for web applications.

Tracking Down Object Changes in Flyway Migration Files | The Tony and Tonie Show

Ever spent hours digging through a pile of Flyway migration files, trying to figure out when a table, view, or procedure changed, and how? In this episode, Tony and Tonie explore Phil Factor’s time-saving PowerShell solution that scans the files for you in version order and pulls out the relevant DDL changes.

New Features in SQL Server 2025: AI, Performance, and Cloud Integration

Most databases were built for a slower world, one where data waited, systems pulled, and answers came later. But today, data flows. It triggers real-time decisions, powers models in motion, and spans every cloud layer. This shift demands a different kind of database—one built to execute, not just store. Microsoft has answered that call with SQL Server 2025.

Why database observability is key to successful cloud data platform adoption

Data is the lifeblood of businesses the world over, from the smallest startup to the largest enterprise. Making sure that it’s available when you need it, secured for authorized use, and recoverable from faults is vital to operating data platforms, no matter where your business is on its cloud journey. This can only be achieved by putting the right data into the hands of the right people, in a timely way, to make the right decisions about how to manage that platform effectively.