March 2026 TIOBE Index stays largely steady, with SQL and R swapping spots, as Paul Jansen explains why the index still relies on search engine hits.

The next wave of AI will be defined by agentic systems that can take actions: query databases, navigate portals, retrieve records, and increasingly interact with public digital infrastructure at scale ...

Building an open-source data lakehouse costs $520K/year in engineering time, before licenses and infra. The real all-in cost ...

I have been spending a lot of time recently investigating the new performance-related features that have rolled out in Fabric Dataflows over the last few months, so expect a lot of blog posts on ...

Overview: SQL developers manage structured databases that power payments, healthcare, retail, and cloud systems.Cloud ...

SQL Server tools are used across industries to improve the performance, security, and automation of databases. Modern tools support cloud-hybrid s ...

The thick client is making a comeback. Here’s how next-generation local databases like PGlite and RxDB are bringing ...

The open source MySQL spin-off has steadily added features all its own. Here are five good reasons to switch to MariaDB.

As I described here, Power BI can send SQL queries in parallel in DirectQuery mode and you can see from the Timeline column there is some parallelism happening here – the last two SQL queries ...

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How to Do It is Slate’s sex advice column. Have a question? Send it to Stoya and Rich here. It’s anonymous! Dear How to Do It, I’ve been in a long-distance, open relationship with “Tom” for nearly a ...