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.NET Conf 2025 Highlights: Unlocking the Future With .NET 10 and AI Innovations

As the dotConnect team, we are proud to be a sponsor of the.NET Conf 2025. This landmark event highlighted the key advancements of the.NET ecosystem, from major releases to AI-powered tools and inspiring community-driven projects.

Microsoft Fabric Data Warehouse: Features, Benefits, and Use Cases

The Fabric Data Warehouse was built to solve one of analytics’ biggest challenges: fragmentation. When data is spread across separate tools for ingestion, modeling, and reporting, teams lose time, accuracy, and visibility. As part of the Microsoft Fabric ecosystem, the Data Warehouse addresses this by unifying every stage of the analytics process into a single, connected environment.

Which Data Connectivity Product to Choose: ODBC, SSIS, Excel, or Python

Data connectivity solutions are the bedrock of a solid database management strategy. Here’s why. Databases rarely work in isolation. They are constantly interacting with various apps and cloud platforms. As such, ensuring that this interaction flows seamlessly is critical. This is where your business data connectivity solution comes in. But here is the problem. There is no one-size-fits-all connectivity solution.

What Are SQL Server Agent Jobs: Guide With Examples

Behind every reliable dashboard and morning report stands a system of accountability: SQL Server Agent jobs. They’re what keeps backups on time, analytics flowing, and data pipelines steady when everything else moves fast. However, to sustain that reliability, SQL Server Agent must operate with precision at scale.

Understand, diagnose, and optimize SQL queries: Introducing Grafana Cloud Database Observability

It’s widely acknowledged that most application performance problems stem not from the application itself, but from the underlying database. Slow or inefficient database queries are often the primary cause of these issues, acting as the biggest driver of application performance incidents. If you’ve been troubleshooting slow API calls or sluggish services, chances are the root cause likely resides within your database layer.

Redgate Monitor

Redgate Monitor helps you manage your entire database estate from a single pane of glass. Monitor SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Oracle, MySQL, and MongoDB – on premises, in the cloud, or in hybrid environments. Get database observability to proactively mitigate potential risks with instant problem diagnosis and customizable alerting. No downtime, customer complaints, or wake-up calls at 3am.

Introducing Redgate Test Data Manager with AI: Smarter, Safer Test Data Management

Discover how Redgate Test Data Manager’s new AI features deliver fast, compliant, production-like test data - balancing realism, speed, and security. In regulated industries like finance, healthcare, and insurance, test data management (TDM) can be quite challenging when it comes to compliance.

Announcing 1B+ Downloads & Product Development With Logs, Traces, Metrics

We’re currently at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025 in Atlanta, and it’s a great opportunity to connect with the community and share some of the progress we’ve made this year. It’s been a busy period of development, new releases, and community engagement, all guided by our focus on delivering simple, reliable, and efficient monitoring & observability solutions.

Devart ODBC Drivers Get Major Update With GUI for macOS/Linux, PostgreSQL 18 Support, and Enhanced Security

We are thrilled to announce a major update across our line of ODBC Drivers, introducing a graphical configuration interface for macOS and Linux, extended authentication methods, and compatibility with the latest database versions including PostgreSQL 18 and MariaDB 12.