Index tuning is critical for the performance of modern database systems. Industrial index tuners, such as the Database Tuning Advisor (DTA) developed for Microsoft SQL Server, rely on the”what-if”API ...

Vizier is a DuckDB extension that analyzes your query workload and recommends physical design changes like indexes, sort orders, Parquet layouts, and summary tables to improve query performance. When ...

Microsoft's Data API Builder is designed to help developers expose database objects through REST and GraphQL without building a full data access layer from scratch. In this Q&A, Steve Jones previews ...

With more than 15 years of experience crafting content about all aspects of personal finance, Michael Benninger knows how to identify smart moves for your money. His work has been published by Intuit, ...

Coalesce Hints for SQL Queries Coalesce hints allows the Spark SQL users to control the number of output files just like the coalesce, repartition and repartitionByRange in Dataset API, they can be ...

According to God of Prompt on Twitter, citing a Google AI experiment, standard fine-tuning of Gemini 2.5 Flash on a text-to-SQL dataset reduced performance on the hardest queries, indicating reasoning ...