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Open Source Is Good Marketing

Aug 24, 2026 By Jean-Jerome Schmidt-Soisson In VictoriaMetrics
Summary: Jean-Jérôme Schmidt-Soisson, marketing lead at VictoriaMetrics, shows that open source and marketing are not opposites. Open source itself can be a powerful growth engine through trust, community, content, documentation, and discoverability. The article explains VictoriaMetrics’ pull-based marketing strategy, anchored in open-source values, to support adoption and business growth. This is our second article on the relationship between open source and marketing.
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AI speeds up delivery. Here's how IT leaders manage the risk when AI-generated code hits production.

Aug 24, 2026 By Redgate Software In Redgate
AI can accelerate speed to market, but for IT leaders it also raises a harder question: can you prove how an AI-generated change reached production? Chris Yates (SVP, Managing Director of Data & Architecture, Republic Bank) explains how his team builds a full evidence trail for every change, using version-controlled deployment tooling like Redgate Flyway Enterprise, so governance becomes a guardrail rather than a brake on speed.
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13 best practices for database development in Visual Studio 2026

Aug 20, 2026 By Rosemary Asufi In Devart
Database development rarely breaks all at once. It happens through small changes that seem harmless at the time. Someone adds a column directly to the shared database. A stored procedure gets fixed in production but not in the project. An index is created in staging and never added anywhere else. Everything looks fine until the next release. Then the differences start showing up, and nobody is quite sure which version of the schema is correct.
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Redgate Flyway Enterprise MCP for AI and Agentic Workflows

Aug 20, 2026 By Redgate Software In Redgate
Huxley Kendell demonstrates how Redgate Flyway Enterprise enables safe, governed, and deterministic integration of AI and agentic workflows into database development processes. Local Workflows Huxley showcases how developers can use an MCP server to interact with Flyway Enterprise through local AI tools like Claude. Agentic Workflows The demo presents a future-ready, fully agentic workflow designed for enterprise automation through an autonomous copilot.
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Zero downtime: Franck Pachot on his 'migration' from Oracle to PostgreSQL | The Simple Talk Podcast

Aug 20, 2026 By Redgate Software In Redgate
We catch up with Franck Pachot, a longtime database community figure who has moved through Oracle, CERN, Yugabyte, MongoDB and, most recently, the PostgreSQL team at Microsoft. Hear stories from Franck's varied career, learn what makes technical content genuinely useful to developers, how PostgreSQL's MVCC and extension model differs from Oracle's, and what's really going on with Microsoft's growing family of PostgreSQL offerings (Flexible Server, Horizon DB, and DocumentDB).
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SSIS Data Flow Components Update Brings Expanded API and Data Source Support

Aug 18, 2026 By dotConnect Team In Devart
The latest release of Devart SSIS Data Flow Components expands support for cloud applications and databases with new objects and fields, updated API and metadata support, and improved authentication and data access capabilities across multiple connectors.
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Devart Excel Add-ins Extend Connectivity With New API, Security, and Data Support

Aug 14, 2026 By dotConnect Team In Devart
We are thrilled to announce an update to our Excel Add-ins, bringing expanded support for popular cloud services and databases. The release introduces new objects, fields, API capabilities, and authentication options for BigCommerce, FreshBooks, HubSpot, NetSuite, QuickBooks Online, Zoho CRM, Oracle, MySQL, and PostgreSQL.
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Monitoring Oracle ASM with Custom Metrics | The Tony and Tonie Show Ep 49

Aug 14, 2026 By Redgate Software In Redgate
Even small Oracle ASM issues can become big database problems. Here's how to spot the warning signs early. Tony and Tonie discuss how Redgate Monitor custom metrics help teams close a common monitoring gap: surfacing Oracle ASM health and performance issues before storage pressure, rebalancing problems, or disk group failures become database incidents.
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VictoriaMetrics

Observability's Sixth Sense: Grounding Anomaly Detection in Reality

Aug 12, 2026 By Diana Todea In VictoriaMetrics
Summary: Machine learning-based anomaly detection improves observability by learning normal system behavior instead of relying only on static thresholds. This article explains how vmanomaly, its MCP server, purpose-built skills, and an LLM-powered UI copilot help engineers explore telemetry, investigate anomalies, build MetricsQL queries, select suitable models, apply business constraints, and validate configurations through natural language.
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Faster SQL Server Development Without the Downstream Risk | The Tony and Tonie Show Ep 48

Aug 12, 2026 By Redgate Software In Redgate
Faster SQL coding only releases engineering capacity if it doesn’t create more late-stage rework and deployment risk. Tony and Tonie discuss how SQL Toolbelt Essentials helps teams keep speed and control aligned. Learn how SQL Toolbelt Essentials helps SQL Server teams write better code faster, catch issues while the code is still being developed, and apply shared standards before changes reach review, test, or deployment.
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