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ODBC Driver for MySQL: Open-Source vs Commercial (2026)

Feb 28, 2026 By Dereck Mushingairi In Devart
The MySQL ODBC driver is what keeps BI tools, reporting systems, and ETL pipelines connected to MySQL without errors. Teams have depended on it for years, and it’s still vital today, especially with MySQL ranked worldwide in February 2026. However, not all ODBC drivers are built alike. There are two categories: open-source options and commercial ones. While both connect applications to MySQL, they differ in areas like stability, performance, security, and support.
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Mastering Temporal LEFT OUTER JOINs for Historical State Analysis in SQL Server

Feb 27, 2026 By Rosemary Asufi In Devart
Short Summary: This guide shows how to use time-based LEFT OUTER JOINs with SQL Server temporal tables, step by step. You’ll see how dbForge tools help you fine-tune these queries so you can get accurate reports for specific points in time, fully understand how your data changes, and confirm that your logic is correct.
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redgate

The Complexity Myth in Test Data Management

Feb 27, 2026 By James Hemson In Redgate
This is a guest post from James Hemson. For years, the test data management market has told smaller companies the same story. Test data is complex. You need consultants. Compliance is expensive. Expect a six-month implementation before you see any value. At Redgate we think that's wrong. And we think it's wrong by design. Complexity creates services revenue. It creates switching costs. Most vendors have built their businesses around this.
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Smarter Custom Metrics for Redgate Monitor: Additional Alert Text Query

Feb 26, 2026 By Nick Coombe In Redgate
This is a guest post from Nick Coombe. Redgate Monitor's built-in metrics cover the most common database pressure points out of the box. However, every estate has a few KPIs and metrics that are specific to the business, and users can create custom metrics to track those signals and receive an alert when they cross a threshold.
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The benefits of leadership coaching in the tech industry - with Cindy Gross

Feb 26, 2026 By Redgate Software In Redgate
Steve is joined by Cindy Gross to discuss leadership coaching in the technology industry – what it is, how it works, and the many benefits it brings. Recorded on-site at PASS Data Community Summit 2025 in Seattle. Cindy is an executive coach and Adaptive Leadership Expert with 25 years in the US tech industry. As a former SQL Server Master (MCM) and expert in cross-organizational navigation at Microsoft, she transformed her focus from complex technical systems to empowering leaders within systemic chaos.
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Log Management for your Homelab with Fluentd and Aiven for PostgreSQL

Feb 25, 2026 By Aiven In Aiven
Tired of not knowing why your home lab containers are crashing? In this video, we’ll walk through how to set up a consolidated logging pipeline using Aiven for PostgreSQL (with TimescaleDB), Fluentd and Grafana — all running on my upgraded Mac Mini home lab. The key insight: never keep your troubleshooting tools on the same machine that's giving you problems!
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VictoriaMetrics

VictoriaMetrics February 2026 Ecosystem Updates

Feb 25, 2026 By Pablo Fernandez In VictoriaMetrics
This month, we’re thrilled to see OpenAI using the VictoriaMetrics Stack internally — including VictoriaMetrics, VictoriaLogs, and VictoriaTraces — in their Harness engineering experiment, as shown in their architecture diagram. It’s a great way of combining observability and AI agents.
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redgate

PostgreSQL Explain Plans in AWS Aurora

Feb 24, 2026 By Grant Fritchey In Redgate
I recently wrote about a project I created on AWS Aurora PostgreSQL where I'm capturing APRS data from a radio. I focused on the ease of use, getting a database, some Lambda Functions, and a few schedulers working together with a web page. It was easy. However, I'd like to focus on a slightly different area now, performance.
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Best SQL Server ODBC Drivers 2026

Feb 23, 2026 By Dereck Mushingairi In Devart
Most database problems get blamed on queries, schemas, or infrastructure, and rarely on SQL Server ODBC drivers. Fair enough, those components often break. But in many cases, the real culprit is the connection layer itself. Poor drivers can lead to security gaps, performance hits, cloud connection struggles, Unicode issues, or incompatibility across platforms and modern SQL Server versions.
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cloudzero

Database Cost Management: How To Control Rising Database Spend

Feb 23, 2026 By Lyne Carolyne In CloudZero
According to CloudZero’s Cloud Economics Pulse, databases are often among the largest and most persistent cloud cost categories. Database costs are notoriously difficult to predict and control. Unlike stateless infrastructure that scales predictably with traffic, databases run continuously and expand behind the scenes, causing costs to rise even when usage appears stable. Because databases run continuously and expand behind the scenes, costs can rise even when usage appears stable.
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Aiven

New high availability architecture for Aiven for PostgreSQL in limited availability

Feb 23, 2026 By Alexander Fridriksson In Aiven
At Aiven, we use and contribute to open source to build our managed data platform. In the early days of Aiven for PostgreSQL, robust cloud-native tools for high availability and streaming backups did not exist at the level we needed. So we built our own. We created pglookout to monitor replication and handle failovers, and we built pghoard for backup and restore using object storage. These tools served us and thousands of our customers well for years. But the open-source PostgreSQL ecosystem has grown.
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Database Partitioning: Types, Strategies, and When to Use Each

Feb 22, 2026 By Prathamesh Sonpatki In Last9
How database partitioning works in PostgreSQL and MySQL. Range, list, and hash partitioning with SQL examples and guidance on when to partition vs shard. Prathamesh works as an evangelist at Last9, runs SRE stories - where SRE and DevOps folks share their stories, and maintains o11y.wiki - a glossary of all terms related to observability.
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Database Sharding: How It Works and When You Actually Need It

Feb 21, 2026 By Prathamesh Sonpatki In Last9
How database sharding works, common strategies (hash, range, directory), shard key selection, and the operational cost of running a sharded database in production. Prathamesh works as an evangelist at Last9, runs SRE stories - where SRE and DevOps folks share their stories, and maintains o11y.wiki - a glossary of all terms related to observability.
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harness

Open Source Liquibase MongoDB Native Executor by Harness | Harness Blog

Feb 19, 2026 By Animesh Pathak In Harness
Harness is strengthening the open Liquibase ecosystem by introducing a native MongoDB executor that removes long-standing limitations for Community Edition users. It enables teams to run MongoDB scripts, generate changelogs, and integrate database workflows into CI/CD without relying on paid extensions. The initiative reinforces open collaboration while making MongoDB-based database DevOps more accessible, consistent, and production-ready.
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Database Security Failures Don't Start in Security Teams

Feb 18, 2026 By Jeff Foster In Redgate
When a database security incident happens, everyone turns to the security team. We look for a simple root cause analysis, and then we add a control, tighten a policy, and maybe even buy a silver bullet tool. We feel progress! But the incident didn’t start there. It started years earlier, when the organization made a series of perfectly reasonable decisions that quietly expanded the surface area and weakened the consistency of control.
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2026 - Redgate Flyway - Starting strong with Oracle

Feb 18, 2026 By Stephanie Herr In Redgate
Deploying changes to Oracle databases can be complex from working across multiple schemas, handling dependencies, and accounting for environment differences. Flyway has been helping teams bring order and automation to Oracle development for over 15 years and in 2026 we’re accelerating that investment even further. Here’s a look at the latest enhancements available today and what’s coming next for Oracle users.
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AI Query Assist for SolarWinds SQL Sentry

Feb 18, 2026 By solarwindsinc In SolarWinds
Rewrite inefficient SQL Server queries in seconds—not hours. In this demo, we show you how AI Query Assist in SolarWinds SQL Sentry transforms the way you tune performance. Watch how to take a problematic query from the "Top SQL" view and use generative AI to instantly generate optimized rewrites and uncover missing indexes. What you will see: Instant Optimization: How to automate query rewriting and get plain-language explanations of the logic changes.
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Control your dependencies in Flyway Desktop for Oracle and SQL Server Databases

Feb 16, 2026 By Stephanie Herr In Redgate
This is a guest post from Stephanie Herr. One of Flyway’s biggest strengths is its ability to track your database schema as individual SQL DDL scripts on disk. This gives you full version control over every object, along with a complete audit trail of what changed, who changed it, when it changed, and why. For teams working with Oracle and/or SQL Server, this level of transparency is essential and this latest release provides even more support for how you handle changes across dependent objects.
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Redgate Test Data Manager Product Updates - January 2025

Feb 16, 2026 By James Hemson In Redgate
This is a guest post from James Hemson. The January release of Redgate Test Data Manager brings the launch of our free trial, a completely redesigned installation experience, and powerful new workflow capabilities. These updates make it faster to get started and easier to automate your data provisioning pipelines.
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Compliant Test Data Used to Be Hard. It Isn't Anymore.

Feb 16, 2026 By Saskia Parks In Redgate
This is a guest post from Saskia Parks. If you're exploring test data management (TDM) solutions, you probably know your current practices aren't ideal, but you're skeptical investing in a solution is worth the budget and effort. We hear the same concerns. The perception is that proper TDM is expensive, complicated, and takes months of painful implementation.
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Install and Activate dotConnect in Visual Studio & Any IDE

Feb 16, 2026 By Devart In Devart
Learn how to install and activate dotConnect products step by step. In this video, we show all available installation options—including NuGet Package Manager, command-line installation in any IDE, and the Windows installer for full Visual Studio integration. You’ll also see how to activate dotConnect using a license key, including how to get a free 30-day trial key from the Devart Customer Portal. This guide helps you.
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dotConnect for Dynamics 365 | Secure C# ADO.NET connection with ORM support

Feb 13, 2026 By Devart In Devart
Integrate Microsoft Dynamics 365 into your C# .NET applications with dotConnect for Dynamics 365—a powerful, high-performance data provider built for secure enterprise connectivity. From workflow automation to CRM data synchronization, dotConnect enables reliable access with seamless Visual Studio integration and advanced ORM support for modern development workflows. Chapters: Try it free for 30 days and see why thousands of developers trust dotConnect for Dynamics 365 in mission-critical environments.
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Redgate Flyway, Oracle, and the Case of the Lowercase Schema

Feb 13, 2026 By Kellyn Gorman In Redgate
If you’ve spent any time working with Oracle databases, you’ve probably internalized a few expectations so deeply that you don’t even think about them anymore. One of the biggest is this: Database users, tables, views, and metadata are in UPPERCASE. So, when you query the database directly, no matter if using SQL*Plus, SQLcl,SQL Developer, or any other tool, you’re going to format your query in a common way.
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VictoriaMetrics

VictoriaMetrics at FOSDEM, Cloud Native Days France, and CfgMgmtCamp Ghent

Feb 11, 2026 By Diana Todea In VictoriaMetrics
Last week, members of the VictoriaMetrics team, including myself, spoke at three very different but equally important community events: FOSDEM in Brussels, Cloud Native Days France in Paris, and CfgMgmtCamp in Ghent. Each event drew a different crowd with its own expectations, making them a good way to see where open source observability stands today and how VictoriaMetrics is adapting to real-world needs. The talks we gave were snapshots of the problems we are actively working on.
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AI Query Assist for SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer

Feb 11, 2026 By solarwindsinc In SolarWinds
Is your database slow? Let AI do the heavy lifting. Watch how SolarWinds DPA’s AI Query Assist transforms query tuning from a manual headache into a streamlined process. This demo shows you how to get instant, AI-powered recommendations for your worst-performing queries while maintaining the control to review and verify every fix. It’s not just about finding the problem—it’s about fixing it faster.
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VictoriaLogs in VictoriaMetrics Cloud: Fast, Cost-Effective Log Management is Here

Feb 10, 2026 By Jose Gomez-Selles In VictoriaMetrics
Yes, you got it right: VictoriaLogs is now Generally Available in VictoriaMetrics Cloud! We believe that this is a huge milestone in our journey to deliver what our users are expecting from us: a complete, managed observability solution. If you’ve been following our quarterly updates, you know we’ve been after this launch for a while. In our latest update a few weeks ago we already announced that we were ready and today we’re making it official.
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dotConnect Update: .NET 10 Support, OAuth Integration & Faster Batch Updates

Feb 10, 2026 By Devart In Devart
The latest dotConnect release is here, bringing major improvements in performance, security, and cloud connectivity for.NET developers. In this video, we walk through the most important updates: This release is designed for developers who rely on high-performance, secure, and dependable data connectivity in modern.NET environments.
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NoSQL Change Control for Compliance | Harness Blog

Feb 9, 2026 By Animesh Pathak In Harness
NoSQL change control must be integrated into CI/CD to ensure governance, traceability, and deployment safety, while automated versioning, testing, and rollbacks reduce compliance risk and preserve release velocity, enabling structured database DevOps to scale innovation without compromising reliability or audit readiness.
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Getting Started with Harness Database DevOps using Flyway

Feb 6, 2026 By Harness In Harness
Database changes shouldn’t be manual, risky, or disconnected from your release process. This walkthrough shows how to get started with Database DevOps using Flyway and Harness, bringing versioning, automation, and CI/CD discipline to your database migrations. Flyway enables SQL-first, versioned migrations, while Harness provides governance, pipeline orchestration, and environment visibility so teams can deploy database changes with the same confidence as application code.
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redgate

Your Test Data Environment: Build vs Buy - a conversation we need to have

Feb 4, 2026 By Steve Jones In Redgate
After three decades of working with databases, one thing I’ve seen over and over is this: we don’t treat our development and test environments with the same respect we do our production systems. Not because people don’t care. Far from it. It’s usually because teams are under pressure, everyone’s juggling multiple priorities, and the quickest path forward often wins the day.
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Best PostgreSQL ODBC Drivers in 2026: How to Choose

Feb 3, 2026 By Dereck Mushingairi In Devart
PostgreSQL ODBC drivers are no longer background components. For teams running BI, reporting, and ETL on PostgreSQL, the drivers directly affect how fast queries run, how reliably dashboards refresh, and whether data pipelines remain stable as usage grows. As PostgreSQL moves deeper into analytics stacks, these capabilities are driving the demand for these tools, a trend reflected in broader ODBC market growth.
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Why test data management is becoming increasingly important to senior IT leaders

Feb 1, 2026 By James Phillips In Redgate
We recently sat down with James Phillips, Senior IT Leader, to talk about test data management (TDM) and the growing attention it’s getting from the senior IT leaders. It’s been prompted by the recognition that provisioning test and development environments with realistic production-like data improves the quality of code being developed, reduces errors, and deliver new features to customers faster.
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