4+ hour, 34+ min ago  (122+ words) Mother Duck's AI lead Till D'hmen explains how the startup collaborates with Duck DB Labs, runs the world's largest Duck DB fleet, and avoids forking....

14+ hour, 20+ min ago  (352+ words) If you do i OS and Android development on a Mac, your disk is quietly dying. Between Xcode's Derived Data, old i OS Device Support folders, Android SDK build-tools release candidates, stale node_modules, Cocoa Pods cache and Docker leftovers " it's not…...

19+ hour, 48+ min ago  (430+ words) Both Schema Spy and Schema Crawler are free, open-source tools for documenting and analysing relational databases over JDBC. Both have been around for over 20 years. Both can generate entity-relationship diagrams. Yet the two tools are more different than they look....

1+ day, 1+ hour ago  (574+ words) A community claiming to represent the interests of My SQL users and developers has launched the Our SQL Foundation, with the aim of presenting a united front to Oracle, which owns the intellectual property behind the popular open source database....

1+ day, 16+ hour ago  (1010+ words) No prior database experience needed. This guide walks you through everything " what Prisma is, how it works, how to get a free cloud database in seconds, and how to write your first queries. If you've ever tried talking to a…...

1+ day, 21+ hour ago  (1130+ words) Today's Highlights This week features significant advancements for Duck DB's Delta and Unity Catalog extensions, a critical postmortem on a challenging Postgre SQL 17 migration, and a practical look at SQLite optimization best practices. Delta Grows Up: Writes, Unity Catalog and…...

2+ day, 10+ hour ago  (378+ words) caught this in production last quarter and the answer is more boring than i expected: GIN and BTREE on the same JSONB column solve different problems, and the right choice depends on the SHAPE of your queries, not the size…...

2+ day, 12+ hour ago  (109+ words) A shell is a command-line interpreter that allows users to interact with the Linux operating system. What is a Shell? When you type a command like: 1. Sh (Bourne Shell) 2. Bash (Bourne Again Shell) Most widely used Linux shell. Default shell…...

2+ day, 18+ hour ago  (824+ words) In metric collection systems, cardinality is a critical concept for balancing performance and cost. I have prepared a 4-step guide on how this balance is established in the real world. In this post, I will explain what metric cardinality is,…...

2+ day, 16+ hour ago  (346+ words) A single slow query can cascade through your entire application. It holds connections, stalls other transactions, and drives up your cloud bill. When that moment arrives, EXPLAIN ANALYZE is the single most important diagnostic tool you have. Postgre SQL ships…...