If you swap a MySQL 8.4 volume to 9.7, accounts using mysql_native_password will no longer be able to connect—though it will start. I measured what remains and wh…

MySQL 9.7 is the next LTS after 8.4, and the official stance supports the path from 8.4 LTS to 9.7 LTS. Meanwhile, ...

[Database Edition 02] Why you should learn SQL in the AI era

When people who have just started learning programming or have just entered the IT industry ask me, "What should I study ...
Opinion

8 Leading replacements for AWS DMS in streaming workloads

AWS Database Migration Service AWS DMS was originally designed for a specific task: lifting relational databases off on-premises servers and moving them into managed Amazon ...
Stars and Stripes

USS Ted Stevens joins fleet as Navy’s newest destroyer

The Navy commissioned USS Ted Stevens, the service’s newest Flight III Arleigh Burke class guided-missile destroyer, during a ...
Chris Webb's BI Blog

The Problem With Approximate Distinct Counts In Power BI – And How To Solve It

As you’ve probably seen in the blog post for the September 2026 release of Power BI, Import mode and Direct Lake mode semantic models now support the ApproximateDistinctCount() DAX function. I tested ...
HackerNoon

How to Query Data the Professional Way in SQL Server: A Performance-First Guide for Beginners

If you've just started writing SQL Server queries, there's a good chance you probably wrote a query, saw it return the right ...
Хабр

Релиз СУБД MariaDB Server 13.0

15 сентября 2026 года состоялся выпуск СУБД MariaDB 13.0.2 , который отмечен как первый стабильный релиз ветки 13.0. Ветка MariaDB 13.0 отнесена к промежуточным выпускам ...
The Hacker News

New cPanel Critical Flaw Could Let Hosting Customers Run SQL as Database Root

cPanel has patched a flaw that let an authenticated hosting customer execute SQL in the database's root context, crossing the privilege boundary between a cPanel account and the server's ...
devblogs

What’s new across Microsoft SQL in 2026 so far (SQL Server, Azure SQL, and SQL database in Fabric)

We’re halfway through 2026, and Microsoft SQL has not slowed down. Since SQLCon/FabCon in March (where we released a ton of things, and those updates can be found in this updates video), we shipped a ...
techtimes

SSMS 22.7 Ships: Native T-SQL Formatting and Copilot Agent Mode Now in Preview

Microsoft shipped SQL Server Management Studio 22.7.0 on Wednesday, June 10, 2026, in what the team called one of the bigger point releases in the 22.x cycle. Database developers who have spent years ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Devs Weigh In on Visual Studio Database Tools

A 34-vote social media poll showed 44.1 percent support for adding more database tooling options to Visual Studio, with 41.2 percent opposed and 14.7 percent choosing "Either way." Several responses ...
cloud

The power of LLMs on your data, more than two orders of magnitude faster and cheaper

Databases have introduced new AI-powered SQL functions which take natural language instructions as input and are evaluated using LLMs. They leverage the power of LLMs to answer new kinds of queries: ...