Join Ordering, Part 1: The Shape of the Search Space https://lobste.rs/s/phvgme #databases

Join Ordering, Part 1: The Shape of the Search Space https://lobste.rs/s/phvgme #databases
Percona went Down Under last week. 🇦🇺
At the Cloud and IT Infrastructure Summit NSW 2026, we joined IT leaders to talk open source databases, cost, vendor lock in, and what it takes to scale reliably across hybrid and multicloud environments.
Vik Fearing: A Hint of Dependence
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The industry keeps asking for index hints in the SQL standard. Codd named indexing dependence as a defect to be cured, in 1970, in the paper that introduced the relational model.
A hint puts it back.
Two Kinds of SQL Query Builders https://lobste.rs/s/zknqct #databases
What would a database built specifically for AI agents look like? We may not know yet.
Percona CEO Peter Farkas spoke with @TheRegister about agentic workloads and why today’s answer may not be tomorrow’s.
San Jose, thanks for a great day!
Percona joined @RedHat Summit: Connect to talk open source databases, lock-in and control of your data stack.
A few highlights from the day 👇
#RedHatSummit #OpenSource #Databases #DataInfrastructure #SanJose #TechEvents #Community
When you are the richest database vendor in the world, and you make administrative applications for universities. #Databases
Blue-green swaps code, but both environments share one database. Run a destructive migration and rollback is gone, because code can go back and schema cannot.
Announcing DuckDB 1.5.6
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🚀 Heading to AWS Summit Dubai? Come find Percona at Booth B14.
Tomorrow, we’ll be talking open source databases, performance, scalability, and how to keep costs under control.
Stop by and say hello! 👋
Join us to explore the world of #observability and monitoring, including #logs, #traces & time series #databases for Kubernetes users, and more.
📍 November 10–12 | Booth #218 🔹 Observability Day: November 9 | Table OBS7
"Amazon Aurora Explained: A Cloud-Native Relational Database Built for Scale" by S Devika
#amazon-aurora #amazon-rds #databases #serverless #cloud-storage
📰 New article by CHANDANA DA, Sravan Kumar Gogana
Resolving query plan regressions after a MySQL engine upgrade
Chicago brought some of the biggest enterprise database priorities to the table.
The Percona team joined @apex_assembly to talk reliability, cost, modernization & flexibility across the database stack. 📸
#ApexAssembly #Databases #OpenSource #MySQL #PostgreSQL #MongoDB #Redis
Paris, we’re coming. 🇫🇷
Percona.Connect lands Oct. 15 for real-world talks on #PostgreSQL, #MongoDB, #MySQL, #Valkey and open source databases in production.
Save your seat: https://bit.ly/46sAJGr
#PerconaConnect #OpenSource #Databases #Paris #TechEvents #Community
⏳ One week to go until Observability Summit Europe 2026!
Ready to level up your #Observability and #Monitoring game? 💪 Meet the #VictoriaMetrics team, and discover how our #OpenSource time series & #logs #databases deliver speed, scale, and efficiency.
📍 Prague Congress Center
🗓️ October 5th
Jobin Augustine: PgQ and PgQue: Workflow Engines you might need in PostgreSQL
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https://bit.ly/3ZGmifd SQL Server: Security for Developers
Join the 9k+ people who have learned how to better #secure their #databases in #SQL #Server.
#LinkedIn #Learing #IT
Footguns with Postgres "at time zone 'UTC'"
Discussion | hackernews | Author: birdculture