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 ...

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 ...

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 ...