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Devart ODBC Drivers vs Free ODBC and JDBC: Key Comparison

Nov 7, 2025 By Dereck Mushingairi In Devart
Most teams never question the JDBC or ODBC drivers they use. If it connects, it’s “good enough.” That assumption can cost more than $14,000 per minute during an outage, according to EMA’s 2024 IT downtime benchmark. Drivers are more than connectors. They dictate how efficiently data moves between databases, applications, and analytics tools. When overlooked, the entire stack slows down. Breakdowns at this level lead to failed reports, missed deadlines, and avoidable downtime.
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AI Agents Observability with OpenTelemetry and the VictoriaMetrics Stack

Nov 7, 2025 By Alexander Marshalov In VictoriaMetrics
Nowadays, AI agents are becoming more and more popular and often deployed as part of production systems. However, this rapid adoption brings unique observability challenges that require flexible solutions. On the one hand, AI agents are fundamentally just like any other software services that produce the same classic observability signals we’re familiar with: metrics, logs, and traces.
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Simple Talk Podcast - Coffee Chat with John Sterrett

Nov 6, 2025 By Redgate Software In Redgate
Simple Talk Podcast – Coffee Chat with John Sterrett Description: Steve chats with John Sterrett, CEO of ProcureSQL, about his true love for data from a young age, how SQL Saturday and community events inspired him to start his own company, ProcureSQL’s use of AI to provide more value, and the impacts of work on relationships - plus much more!
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Replication Job Monitoring Support in Redgate Monitor

Nov 5, 2025 By Nick Coombe In Redgate
Whether it’s a stalled Log Reader Agent, a conflicting insert on the subscriber, or a failed cleanup job bloating the distribution database, Redgate Monitor now brings SQL Server replication issues to light early, before performance or reliability are affected. In many SQL Server environments, replication remains essential for offloading reporting and analytics workloads, or for maintaining local and synchronized data copies across regions.
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Building dbRosetta Using AI: Part 2, Defining the Project & Prompt Templates

Nov 5, 2025 By Grant Fritchey In Redgate
This is the next installment of the series on building a database and an application called dbRosetta using AI/LLM. Part 1 introduces the concept. THE AI PICKED DATABASE FIRST! Look, I talk databases at this thing a lot, so it probably knows my own preference, but when I asked it, it chose to build a database separate from the code. Let’s get into it.
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Unleashing Powerful Analytics: Technical Deep Dive into Cassandra-Spark Integration

Unleashing Powerful Analytics: Technical Deep Dive into Cassandra-Spark Integration

Nov 5, 2025 By Abhinav Jain In OpsMatters
Apache Cassandra has long been favored by organizations dealing with large volumes of data that require distributed storage and processing capabilities. Its decentralized architecture and tunable consistency levels make it ideal for handling massive datasets across multiple nodes with minimal latency. On the other hand, Apache Spark excels in processing and analyzing data in-memory, making it an excellent complement to Cassandra for performing real-time analytics and batch processing tasks.
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last9

Grafana Tempo: Setup, Configuration, and Best Practices

Nov 4, 2025 By Anjali Udasi In Last9
As systems grow, understanding how a request moves across multiple services becomes harder. Traces help bring this picture together by showing the exact path a request takes, along with the timings that matter. Grafana Tempo is built for this kind of workload. It stores traces efficiently, works well with OpenTelemetry, and keeps the operational overhead low.
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