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Test Data Management Demo | Compliance without Compromise

Compliance Without Compromise: Test Data Management That Finally Fits You know you shouldn't have sensitive production data in test environments. But every time you look at fixing it, the options feel impossible: enterprise tools that cost six figures and take months to implement, or DIY scripts that sort of work until they don't. So, it stays on the backlog.

BigQuery CI/CD and Database DevOps with Harness | Harness Blog

Modern data platforms are evolving rapidly, and Google Cloud BigQuery has become a core part of analytics, AI, and large-scale reporting architectures. Teams (including Harness) rely on BigQuery to process and analyze massive datasets, but managing schema changes in a secure, repeatable way can still be challenging.

The Compliance Gap in Test Data Management

Compliance Without Compromise: Test Data Management That Finally Fits You know you shouldn't have sensitive production data in test environments. But every time you look at fixing it, the options feel impossible: enterprise tools that cost six figures and take months to implement, or DIY scripts that sort of work until they don't. So, it stays on the backlog.

Safe Database Change at Scale with Flyway Enterprise | The Tony and Tonie show Ep45

AI-assisted coding may speed up delivery, but it can also increase the risk around database changes. Here’s how Flyway helps teams stay in control. Tony and Tonie discuss how Flyway Enterprise helps teams build control into the database change process: immediate change visibility, continuous risk reduction, and secure, traceable deployment from commit to production.

The importance of taking the initiative (a chat with Chris Yates) | The Simple Talk Podcast

Taking the initiative. Prioritizing relationships. Doing the work nobody else wants to do. These are just some of the elements that contributed to Chris Yates’ rise from a developer to a DBA and, eventually, a Senior Vice President. As he explains to Steve Jones, “you are the CEO of your own brand.” Also in the episode: discover Chris’ thoughts on AI, the importance of community, and the one thing he’d now do differently if he were to start from scratch.

Monitor Azure Managed Redis with Datadog

Azure Managed Redis is Microsoft’s fully managed, enterprise-tier in-memory data store. It is designed for the low-latency caching, session storage, and real-time data needs of modern applications, including AI workloads that depend on fast vector and embedding lookups. Because user-facing applications often query Redis directly, even small regressions in latency, hit rate, or memory pressure can degrade the user experience.

DuckDB: Not Quack Science | Ubuntu Summit 26.04

Could you process hundreds of gigabytes of data on your laptop, or tens of terabytes on a single server? DuckDB is an open source SQL database system, geared towards analytical workloads. DuckDB ships a state-of-the-art database architecture as a single package, that is available both as a command line tool and as an in-process library. Uniquely among databases, DuckDB focuses on user experience and portability, making it easy to set up almost anywhere.

The options within Test Data Management - Enterprise, DIY or Redgate

Compliance Without Compromise: Test Data Management That Finally Fits You know you shouldn't have sensitive production data in test environments. But every time you look at fixing it, the options feel impossible: enterprise tools that cost six figures and take months to implement, or DIY scripts that sort of work until they don't. So, it stays on the backlog.

Top 5 AI-Powered Database Query Tools for Data Analysts

Data analysts spend a large part of their workday translating business questions into database logic. A stakeholder asks why revenue changed. A product manager wants to compare cohorts. A finance team needs a variance explained. The question may sound simple, but the path to the answer often involves finding the right tables, understanding how fields are defined, writing SQL, validating joins, checking filters, and making sure the result matches the intended business meaning.

dotConnect Providers and Entity Developer Receive Major Feature Updates

We are excited to announce major updates across our dotConnect Providers product line and Entity Developer. The release introduces expanded API support, new business objects and reports, improved authentication capabilities, and broader compatibility with modern.NET platforms. Our dotConnect product line continues to evolve with the latest technology changes.

3 Best PostgreSQL ADO.NET Providers for .NET Projects

In 2026, choosing the best PostgreSQL ADO.NET providers, or the right PostgreSQL.NET driver, comes down to the details. You need to know how they perform under load, how well they fit your stack, and what happens when things break. This guide compares the leading provider options side by side to help you identify the right fit for your environment. By evaluating these PostgreSQL ADO.NET providers, you can avoid pitfalls early, saving evaluation time and preventing costly fixes later.

Top 4 MySQL ADO.NET Providers for 2026

Modern.NET applications depend on stable ADO.NET providers to connect their logic with MySQL databases. But developers often run into familiar issues, async performance that’s unreliable, providers that differ in maturity, licensing that’s unclear, or integration friction with EF Core or cloud pipelines. In this guide, you’ll get a clear, architecture-based comparison of the top ADO.NET providers for MySQL.

Your developers are using AI agents, your data exposure just multiplied

Your developers are already using AI agents. GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code. Not just for autocomplete, but to generate features, run test suites, and iterate across branches. Each agent needs a database to work against. And in most organizations, nobody has checked what's actually in that database, or whether it should be there.

Operator now has Long-Term Support (LTS) version

VictoriaMetrics Operator has been developing at a neck-breaking pace, bringing numerous improvements, features, and fixes to our community. We usually make at least a single release every two weeks. While this rapid iteration cycle is great for delivering fixes and improvements quickly, it can be challenging for administrators managing critical production environments.

5 Best ADO.NET Providers: Use Cases & Choosing Tips

Behind every modern.NET application is an ADO.NET provider handling database connections, queries, and ORM operations behind the scenes. As applications become more cloud-native and data-intensive, that provider layer has become far more important than many teams realize. Performance, scalability, deployment reliability, and even developer workflow can all depend on the quality of the provider underneath the application.

Devart Brings AI Agents Closer to Enterprise Data with New MCP Server Product Line

We are excited to announce the release of the brand new line of MCP Servers (Model Context Protocol), designed to connect AI assistants, AI agents, and large language models directly to enterprise databases and cloud business platforms. The release includes 19 specialized MCP Servers and the flagship Universal MCP Server, which enables AI access to virtually any data source through the ODBC standard.

Redgate Monitor Product Updates - May 2026

Redgate Monitor ships new features every month and the past few months have brought some exciting new additions to empower your workflows. Spanning AI-powered tooling, cloud deployment, cross-database platform support and enterprise security, these updates reflect some of the biggest areas shaping how database teams work today. Whether you're managing compliance requirements, trying to get on top of alert management or looking to get a better grip on cloud costs, there's something here for you.

A Practical Guide to Refactoring Production Databases | The Tony and Tonie show Ep44

That “simple” production database refactor may be more dangerous than it looks. Learn how Data Modeler helps teams minimize the risk. Once a database is live, even simple design improvements can affect data, applications, reports, and integrations in unexpected ways. Tony and Tonie discuss how Redgate Data Modeler helps teams map out the proposed changes visually, expose hidden dependencies, and plan a safer roll out.

How we made a SQL query optimization agent 59% more accurate using autoresearch and LLM Observability

Without experiment infrastructure to help you test your LLM applications, every research session starts with the same questions: What have we tried previously? What were the numbers? Which prompt version produced that result? Why did we discard that approach? The answers live in scattered notes, terminal history, and half-remembered conversations. Each handoff between sessions loses context. In practice, iteration can slow down as teams get bogged down in testing and analysis.

How Airbnb Built a High-Volume Metrics Pipeline with OpenTelemetry and vmagent

We always knew that Airbnb’s engineering is operating on a completely different scale, and their new high-volume metrics pipeline is proof of that. This is one of those rare stories where scale and efficiency go hand in hand - they modernized their observability stack with open source components and reduced cost by an order of magnitude. Airbnb is now processing more than 100 million samples per second on a single production cluster.

Diagnose slow PostgreSQL queries faster with explain plan correlation

When a PostgreSQL query runs slowly, engineers often start with EXPLAIN ANALYZE. The output is a tree of plan nodes, each one describing a step the database took to execute it. A query with several joins and a subquery can produce 20 or more nodes. But the plan gives no visual indication of which node corresponds to each clause in the SQL text. Diagnosing the problem means viewing the plan in one window and the query in another, manually tracing connections between them.

What a Modern Business Tech Stack Should Look Like

In today's fast digital market, the real question is not if your business needs tech, but which tech will help you move forward. A modern business tech stack is more than a pile of apps. It's a carefully chosen set of digital tools and systems (like programming languages, frameworks, databases, front-end and back-end tools, and APIs) that work together to run day-to-day operations, support new ideas, and help the business grow.

Redgate Monitor | AWS Database Migration Readiness

n this demo, we explore the AWS Database Migration and Modernization (D2M) framework, from Align and Assess, trough to Optimize, and show how Redgate Monitor helps you to establish performance baselines, right-size target environments and continuously optimize RDS and Aurora spend for full cloud cost visibility. Learn how Redgate Monitor can give you a single view of your entire AWS and on-premises, multi-database environment.

Redgate Test Data Manager | AWS Database Migration Readiness

In this demo, we explore the AWS Database Migration and Modernization (D2M) framework, from Align and Assess through to Optimize, and show how Redgate TDM helps teams to safely work through compliance or data privacy concerns during cloud migrations. See how to safely mask sensitive data, create reusable datasets, and accelerate development with consistent, compliant test data across environments. Discover how test data management reduces risk, supports DevOps pipelines, and enables faster, more secure cloud migrations.

Redgate Flyway Enterprise | AWS Database Migration Readiness

In this demo, we explore the AWS Database Migration and Modernization (D2M) framework, from Align and Assess through to Optimize, and show how Flyway helps simplify database versioning, automate deployments, and enable reliable CI/CD. See how to reduce risk, improve collaboration, and modernize your database workflows in the cloud with better visibility and control.

Security vs speed in databases | The Simple Talk Podcast

Are engineering teams quietly accepting more risk? Redgate's 2026 State of the Database Landscape report reveals that people are increasingly willing to accept more risk to be more productive and take full advantage of AI’s capabilities. Steve Jones, Kellyn Gorman, Grant Fritchey and Pat Wright share their thoughts on that in today's episode. They share stories from their own careers, debate on whether the decline of the DBA 'gatekeeper' role has weakened security practices, how AI is amplifying the problem - and much more.

Best ADO.NET Tools for SQLite in 2026

The best ADO.NET tools for SQLite should preserve the speed that makes SQLite worth using in the first place. Recent benchmarks show it completing 100,000 sequential reads in 272 milliseconds, nearly 5x faster than MySQL on the same hardware, because there’s zero network overhead between your app and the database. A slow or poorly matched provider wipes out that advantage. Queries drag, operations behave unpredictably under concurrency, and simple data access turns into a scaling problem.

What's New in dbForge 2026.1: Greater Convenience, Enhanced Code Completion, and a Big Update of dbForge Studio for PostgreSQL

The time has come to announce the release of dbForge 2026.1, a grand update that brings a variety of new features and long-anticipated enhancements to the entire dbForge ecosystem. As usual, the update will cover all database systems that dbForge is compatible with, but this time, there will be a special focus on PostgreSQL and related databases and cloud services, whose users will be witnessing a major step forward, with multiple new features, options, and whatnot.

How to Choose the Right ADO.NET Provider for Dynamics 365

Without a dedicated Dynamics 365 connector, software engineers can spend up to 50% of their time building custom integrations instead of shipping core features. They get pulled into JSON handling, OAuth setup, and OData limits, which slows everything down. A dedicated ADO.NET provider changes all that. It lets teams query CRM data with SQL, use familiar C# tools, and plug into ORMs like Entity Framework or Dapper, making it a practical dynamics CRM connector for modern.NET applications.

Diagnose and resolve database performance issues faster with Database Investigator

When your database performance degrades, diagnosing the root cause is rarely quick or straightforward. Your existing tools might surface metrics like CPU utilization, wait events, and query duration, but then leave you to correlate the data and identify what went wrong. Worse, what first appears to be the root cause can often just be a downstream effect of multiple interrelated issues.

Multi-tiered Observability: A Practical Way to Handle Diverse Workloads

Observability in large companies is rarely one-size-fits-all. The VictoriaMetrics topologies guide shows why different deployment patterns are needed as scale, isolation, and reliability requirements grow. Different workloads require different trade-offs: some need long retention for audits and trend analysis, while others need higher resolution for debugging. Business-critical systems also demand dependable alerting and high availability, often with several 9s of reliability.

Why database ownership is so fragmented in 2026 - and what you can do about it

In today’s cloud-driven, multi-platform environments, answering the simple question - who owns that database? - is no longer straightforward. As teams adopt open-source tools and spin up cloud services on demand, ownership is becoming fragmented across development, operations, and data teams. This shift is accelerating innovation but also creating new challenges in visibility, control, and accountability, as Grant Fritchey explains.

Troubleshoot performance issues faster with the new Grafana Assistant integration for Database Observability

So your database is slow. Now what? Grafana Cloud Database Observability already gives you visibility into your SQL queries with RED metrics, individual execution samples, wait event breakdowns, table schemas, and visual explain plans. But visibility is just the starting point. You can see that a query's P99 latency spiked, but what should you do about it? You can see wait events like wait/synch/mutex/innodb firing, but what does that actually mean?

VictoriaMetrics April 2026 Ecosystem Updates

We’re excited to learn that our vmagent helped Airbnb migrate its high-volume metrics pipeline from StatsD and Veneur to OpenTelemetry. Airbnb is now handling 100 million samples per second. You can read more about the migration in these articles: In other news, April saw releases across the VictoriaMetrics Observability Stack. We have released several important bugfixes for VictoriaMetrics and many new features in VictoriaLogs. This release round-up covers updates for.

Best Salesforce ODBC Connector Tools in 2026

Salesforce ODBC drivers solve a specific problem: they allow SQL-based tools to query Salesforce data without requiring custom API integrations. That capability matters because Salesforce holds over 20% of the global CRM market and is used by more than 150,000 companies worldwide, making it the largest CRM ecosystem in operation today.

Monitor and optimize Supabase query performance with Datadog Database Monitoring

Built on Postgres, Supabase is an open source, all-in-one backend platform for developers who want to ship applications without managing infrastructure. This makes it especially popular with frontend developers and vibe coders who may have little to no database expertise. Datadog's Supabase integration provides high-level infrastructure metrics, but developers also need query-level visibility to easily diagnose, optimize, and trace performance issues back to their source.

Real-Time Database Monitoring: Solving Database Latency with Zero-Code eBPF Tracing

In high-throughput database environments, a latency spike is rarely a simple story. Modern data layers are distributed, stateful, and constantly changing as shards move, nodes rebalance, caches warm, queries evolve, and connections churn. In practice, spikes usually come from one of three places: For many SRE and Platform teams, the real challenge is disconnected tooling. As one engineering lead recently shared during a technical workshop: “It’s all disconnected.

Test Data Management and SOC 2 Compliance | The Tony and Tonie show Ep43

SOC 2 compliance isn’t just about protecting data in your production systems. Your test data may also be exposing you to risk. Here’s how to get it under control. Using production data outside prod is one of the fastest ways to create compliance risk. Tony and Tonie discuss how a Test Data Management approach gives you the control, automation and traceability that SOC 2 demands, without slowing down development.