A practical guide to how databases work, covering schema design, SQL, indexing, transactions, concurrency, caching, pagination, and database selection.

"Find the best-selling product from last year." When an AI system attempts to answer a question like this by querying a company database, even a single reference to a nonexistent item can cause the ...

Is it really okay not to install an expensive DWH? A thorough verification from the perspective of the field —Introduction: Why is the secondary use of data important now?Whether in hospitals or ...

The real question for leadership is not whether AI will replace the DBA, but what AI should be allowed to decide unsupervised, and what must never be automatic.

Jev is becoming a hot topic in various places. About half a month has passed since the model was released, and as information has increased, I have gathered input on its use cases and more.I am output ...

Batch and streaming are two different ways of processing data, and both are relevant in today’s world. Pick the approach that’s right for you without falling ...

When my niece recently applied for a doctoral program in physical therapy, she needed ChatGPT's help to consolidate a list of 20 varied work experiences. That's when she ran up against a paywall. It ...

Ducts of a geothermal air conditioning system at Aruba SpA's Global Cloud Data Center IT3 in Ponte San Pietro, Italy. Photographer: Francesca Volpi/Bloomberg AI's environmental footprint increases ...

Agoda migrated its 1.5 TB hotel Price Cache from 72 SQL Server shards to DragonflyDB to handle growing read and write volumes ...

As AI use shifts from simple, one-off queries to longer and more complex tasks, the added computing required results in a dramatically larger environmental footprint. The energy needed to build a web ...

The term “complex ADHD” reflects an evolution in our understanding of the condition, its scope, and its common co-occurrence with one or more psychiatric, learning, or other neurodevelopmental ...