A new reinforcement learning optimizer called LIGHT uses dynamic graph attention and logarithmic reward shaping to cut query ...

David Rowley looks deeply into the improvements coming to the query planner in PostgreSQL 16. For a long time now, PostgreSQL has been able to remove a LEFT JOIN where no column from the left joined ...

PostgreSQL 18 expands the queries that can benefit from existing indexes and adds native support for time-ordered UUIDs, giving application developers reasons to reassess how they organize and ...

With its latest release, database vendor EnterpriseDB is providing users of the open source PostgreSQL database with a set of new tools and extensions to better optimize and manage deployments. The ...

Next major release of the major open source relational database, now in beta, brings performance improvements to query execution and to logical replication. PostgreSQL 16, the next major update of the ...

Companies like PlanetScale and Oracle are providing curated libraries of Skills that allow AI coding assistants, such as Claude Code or Cursor, to interact directly with databases. Skills, Skills, ...

In a modern enterprise data environment, the increasing volume of data, distributed architecture, and complex application dependencies challenge traditional query-tuning methods. Observability ...