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devart

What's New in dbForge 2025.3: Enhanced Connectivity, Updated UI/UX, Newly Supported Syntax Constructs, and Much More!

Dec 24, 2025 By dbForge Team In Devart
How about ending this year on a major note? Enter dbForge 2025.3, our new release that covers the entire dbForge product line and brings lots of useful stuff to the table. This includes up-to-date connectivity options, a handful of UI/UX improvements, a wealth of newly supported syntax constructs, and a few more enhancements to make sure you start 2026 with your productivity at an all-time high. Without further ado, let’s take a look!
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influxdata

Why Use a Purpose-Built Time Series Database

Dec 24, 2025 By Cole Bowden In InfluxData
A time series database has a straightforward definition: it’s a database purpose-built for efficiently ingesting, storing, and querying time series data. Time series data is any data with a timestamp, collected regularly or periodically, that you’ll often visualize on graphs where the X-axis is time. This definition doesn’t quite tell you what sets it apart from other types of databases, though.
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datadog

How microservice architectures have shaped the usage of database technologies

Dec 22, 2025 By Bowen Chen In Datadog
In the late 2000s, the big question in database design was SQL or NoSQL. While relational databases had long held their ground, document and key-value stores were emerging as serious alternatives. Many predicted a zero-sum, winner-take-all outcome. But when we look at how organizations are using database technologies today, no single tool or category has dominated the landscape.
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devart

SSIS Data Flow Components 3.2: Improved Security and Database Integration

Dec 20, 2025 By dotConnect Team In Devart
We are pleased to announce the release of SSIS Data Flow Components Version 3.2. This latest version introduces significant updates to enhance compatibility with modern databases and bolster security features. As data management continues to evolve, we are committed to keeping SSIS Data Flow Components at the forefront of efficient, secure, and scalable data integration and making sure our users have the tools they need to confidently navigate the future of data workflows.
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devart

dotConnect 2025.1 Release: Built for speed. Designed for security.

Dec 19, 2025 By dotConnect Team In Devart
We’re excited to announce dotConnect 2025.1, a major update that brings full support for the newest versions of.NET and Visual Studio. This release boosts performance with new batch update capabilities, adds built-in OAuth for easier cloud integration, and streamlines the product lineup by removing outdated technologies so developers can rely on a more modern, focused data access stack.
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VictoriaMetrics

VictoriaMetrics 2025 Developer Experience: A Year in Review

Dec 19, 2025 By Diana Todea In VictoriaMetrics
2025 was a landmark year for VictoriaMetrics — defined not only by product improvements, new capabilities, and wider adoption, but by a strong and consistent presence across the global open-source and cloud-native ecosystem. Our mission has always been clear: to build open-source monitoring and observability solutions that are simple, reliable, and efficient for metrics, logs, and traces.
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redgate

Streamlining Flyway Setup with the Guided Shadow Configuration

Dec 19, 2025 By Daniel Osborne In Redgate
Guided Shadow Configuration removes the setup overhead of shadow databases in Flyway Desktop, allowing teams to adopt migrations-based workflows quickly and safely with minimal configuration. A Shadow Database is a disposable, ‘sandbox’ database that Flyway uses to generate and verify migration scripts.
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7 Strategies for IT Ops Teams to Monitor and Optimize Real-Time Commodity Pricing Systems for Financial Reliability

7 Strategies for IT Ops Teams to Monitor and Optimize Real-Time Commodity Pricing Systems for Financial Reliability

Dec 18, 2025 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
Real-time commodity pricing systems have become mission-critical infrastructure for financial institutions, trading desks, and enterprise resource planning operations. As of December 2025, with 72% of trading firms migrating to cloud-native CTRM and ETRM platforms, IT Ops teams face mounting pressure to maintain pricing accuracy, minimize latency, and ensure system resilience during volatile market conditions.
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devart

Guide to Connecting Dynamics 365 and Visual Studio With Devart ODBC

Dec 17, 2025 By Dereck Mushingairi In Devart
Integrating Dynamics 365 with Visual Studio should be simple. Yet, developers and solution architects often run into challenges when trying to establish a direct, standards-compliant connection. From dealing with fragmented integrations to handling complex data security requirements, these obstacles slow down development, increase maintenance costs, and hinder the full strategic use of CRM data.
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devart

How Oracle AI Transforms SQL Performance and Accuracy

Dec 17, 2025 By Dereck Mushingairi In Devart
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.
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metricfire

How to Connect Your MySQL Instance to a Grafana Datasource

Dec 17, 2025 By Benjamin Pitts In MetricFire
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.
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VictoriaMetrics

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

Dec 16, 2025 By Adam Yates In 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.
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harness

Harness Database DevOps Now Supports Google AlloyDB

Dec 16, 2025 By Animesh Pathak In Harness
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.
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redgate

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

Dec 15, 2025 By Grant Fritchey In Redgate
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.
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VictoriaMetrics

VictoriaMetrics Achieves Red Hat OpenShift Operator Certification

Dec 15, 2025 By Adam Yates / Vadim Rutkovsky In VictoriaMetrics
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.
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dbForge AI Assistant Overview for SQL Developers

Dec 15, 2025 By Devart In Devart
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.
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devart

QuickBooks to Power BI: Devart's Alternative to Microsoft's Deprecated Connector

Dec 12, 2025 By Rosemary Asufi In Devart
Microsoft officially pulled the plug on the native QuickBooks Power BI connector, triggering immediate reporting disruptions for many businesses. Automated refresh stopped working, dashboards went stale, and financial reporting pipelines that once ran in the background began to fail without warning. This changed daily finance operations. Finance teams were forced back into manual CSV exports, delayed updates, and fragile reporting workflows.
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devart

TOP MySQL ODBC Drivers 2026

Dec 12, 2025 By Rosemary Asufi In Devart
ODBC MySQL drivers have become a critical layer in the performance, stability, and scalability of modern analytics systems. And the broader market confirms that shift. Forecasts now put the ODBC market segment at USD 4.38 billion by 2029, clear proof that this once-overlooked layer is becoming a priority inside enterprise data stacks. But what many teams still underestimate is the spread in quality of these tools. While ODBC drivers serve the same purpose, they do not all deliver the same results.
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redgate

SQL Compare & SQL Data Compare v16: Introducing SQL Server 2025 Support, Enhanced Security & More

Dec 12, 2025 By Stephanie Herr In Redgate
SQL Compare and SQL Data Compare v16 introduces SQL Server 2025 support and improved credential security. Plus, SSMS 22 integration is coming soon. We have just released a new major version of SQL Compare and SQL Data Compare – version 16. This major version has two big items and one coming soon.
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devart

How to Build Microservices With ASP.NET Core and EF Core

Dec 11, 2025 By Dereck Mushingairi In Devart
When a monolithic app starts to hit its limits, microservices are often the next step forward. They let you scale only what’s under pressure, keep changes local, and give teams the freedom to deploy on their own schedule. It’s no wonder the market for microservices is growing fast, from $1.93 billion in 2024 to a projected $11.36 billion by 2033. So how do you build microservices? In.NET, the process is surprisingly straightforward.
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redgate

Building dbRosetta Part 5: We Need an API

Dec 10, 2025 By Grant Fritchey In Redgate
Because I don’t want to have to fight with our support team (they’re awesome, but busy) I decided that, initially, I’m going to host dbRosetta at ScaryDBA.com. I have full control of the web site, and I won’t be breaking Redgate Software entirely if I accidently do something silly. Before starting the process of developing our next prompt, or set of prompts, I discussed the project with CoPilot. We agreed to break the next part into two pieces.
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harness

DBA vs Developer Dynamics: Bridging the Gap with Database DevOps

Dec 8, 2025 By Animesh Pathak In Harness
Developer velocity and DBA caution are not opposing forces, they reflect two essential priorities that historically lacked a shared process. Database DevOps eliminates tension by introducing automated validation, approvals, and visibility that allow developers to move fast while DBAs safeguard performance and reliability. With platforms like Harness, database change becomes a collaborative workflow instead of a conflict, turning release cycles into a partnership built on trust and predictability.
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AI-Driven Database Monitoring for Modern IT Teams | Site24x7

Dec 8, 2025 By ManageEngine Site24x7 In Site24x7
Databases power every business, but keeping them fast, reliable, and scalable is a daily challenge for IT teams. Discover how intelligent database monitoring helps you uncover performance bottlenecks, optimize queries, and maintain database health effortlessly. Whether you manage SQL or NoSQL systems, gain actionable insights across your infrastructure before issues affect your applications or users.
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Use Database Monitoring in Splunk Observability Cloud to Identify and Resolve Slow Queries

Dec 4, 2025 By Splunk In Splunk
In this video, I introduce Database Monitoring in Splunk Observability Cloud. I'll demonstrate how to spot and resolve slow queries by leveraging rich metrics and correlating database performance directly with traces in Splunk Observability Cloud APM. TOC.
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redgate

Building dbRosetta Part 4: Automating a CI Database Build

Dec 4, 2025 By Grant Fritchey In Redgate
Since I’m starting development with the dbRosetta database, and since I’m way more comfortable with databases than with code, I’m going to continue within the database sphere for a bit as we build out dbRosetta. My next step is to work with the AI to get a pipeline in place to take our database code and deploy it to Azure Flex Server.
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harness

Database DevOps vs. Database Migration Systems and Why You Need Both

Dec 3, 2025 By Animesh Pathak In Harness
Database DevOps and migration systems solve different parts of the same workflow - one enables collaboration, governance, and automation while the other delivers structured, versioned schema execution. Using both eliminates release friction by aligning developers, DBAs, and CI/CD pipelines with full auditability and rollback safety. Harness converges these capabilities to make database changes seamless, compliant, and production-ready by design. Every developer knows this story.
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Aiven

Different ways to Search Text in PostgreSQL

Dec 3, 2025 By Jay Miller In Aiven
When it comes to text search, PostgreSQL offers a surprisingly rich set of tools. Initially, text search capabilities were quite basic, often relying on the LIKE operator. This is inefficient for large amounts of text and lacks the nuance that comes with language. A major breakthrough came with the introduction of the built-in tsquery and tsvector data types, along with the associated functions, as part of PostgreSQL's core distribution. But tsquery is not the only option.
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VictoriaMetrics

Our latest updates across the VictoriaMetrics Observability ecosystem

Dec 1, 2025 By Denys Holius In VictoriaMetrics
We’re excited to announce a set of updates across the entire VictoriaMetrics open source products suite — including VictoriaMetrics, VictoriaLogs, VictoriaTraces, the VictoriaMetrics Kubernetes Operator. These improvements bring better performance, stronger security, enhanced metadata visibility, and a smoother experience when running observability at scale.
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