Anthropic's Claude Code AI coding agent can enforce SQL conventions via rules files, skills, and agents. The rules file turns a style guide into a default at generation time, ensuring generated code f…
Couchbase added a data plane to its database platform to give AI agents persistent memory access for context retrieval, reducing token usage and costs. The company also introduced an MCP server, Agent…
A developer outlines three materialized view patterns for SQL Server/Azure SQL and .NET: indexed views, custom read model tables, and precomputed page caches. The post explains how each pattern improv…
A developer compares AWS and Azure for cloud costs, finding that Azure can be 20-40% cheaper for organizations with Microsoft Enterprise Agreements, while AWS offers more granular pricing options. The…
A developer building on the Microsoft Agent Framework describes how to connect agents to private knowledge using RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation). The approach exposes retrieval as a controlled to…
A developer automated database backups across a fleet of servers using the remote-agents MCP server, which connects each host to an encrypted relay room. The setup includes a Postgres primary, two str…
Everpure has extended its data and control planes for agentic AI, enabling universal data intelligence across enterprise estates. The company acquired 1touch in February to classify and contextualize …
A new conversational analytics engine splits query processing into deterministic planning and LLM-driven execution, using a subject graph to resolve entity names and inject security rules. The approac…
Brent Ozar published a new "Office Hours" video from his home office, answering top-voted questions from his pollgab.com community. The session covered topics including SQL Server consultants' opposit…
VDF AI Data now supports nine database types for enterprise AI data integration, including PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle, SAP HANA, Exasol, Presto, generic JDBC connections, and Jira. The plat…
A developer has published a six-rule framework for senior C#/.NET engineers using Cursor AI, addressing common issues like forgotten dependency injection patterns, EF Core N+1 query generation, and ac…
This article explains how to build a custom database connection framework for ASP.NET minimal APIs using ADO.NET and SQLite, replacing Entity Framework to gain full control over SQL queries. The autho…
Amazon RDS Reserved Instances offer significant cost savings compared to on-demand pricing, with discounts ranging from 29% on a 1-year No Upfront commitment to up to 69% on a 3-year All Upfront term,…
This article explains that database maintenance should be triggered by workload signals rather than fixed schedules, as scheduled maintenance often misses tables that need it most and leads to product…
Bintrail is a new open-source tool that enables time-travel queries and row-history lookups in MySQL by indexing binary logs and routing queries through ProxySQL, without requiring any modifications t…