As SQL Server 2016 approaches end of support in July 2026, a look back at its groundbreaking innovations reveals how it reshaped Microsoft's data platform and why it's time to move forward. As I've ...

Change Event Streaming (CES) in SQL Server 2025 and Azure SQL enables event-driven architectures by streaming JSON records from table activity to Azure Event Hub, with Entra support now available in ...

The open source MySQL spin-off has steadily added features all its own. Here are five good reasons to switch to MariaDB. MariaDB may have started as a MySQL fork, following Oracle’s acquisition of ...

Every data engineering team right now is being asked the same question: "How do we build a chatbot that talks to our data?" The prototypes are deceptively simple. A developer connects GPT-5.1 to a ...

Nitro.js is a JavaScript-based HTTP server. It builds on state-of-the-art components, focusing on performance, convention, and deployment. As a JavaScript developer, you want to know about Nitro ...

DBeaver is a free, open-source, cross-platform SQL client and database administration tool. It is designed to support a wide variety of SQL and NoSQL databases, including MySQL and PostgreSQL. Its key ...

In my recent article I've reported about a nice free alternative to manage SQL databases, which, from the same UI can manage also MySQL databases. I thought that it might be a good idea to actually ...