iMasters

Cinco palavras do SQL que fazem o PostgreSQL trabalhar mais do que o necessário

Benchmark com 2 milhões de linhas mostra o custo real de UNION, MATERIALIZED, ORDER BY random() e SELECT * no PostgreSQL 18.6 ...
Opinion

8 Leading replacements for AWS DMS in streaming workloads

AWS Database Migration Service AWS DMS was originally designed for a specific task: lifting relational databases off on-premises servers and moving them into managed Amazon ...

A system where 'no one knows who touched it' makes everyone a target the day a leak occurs

What is scary is not the moment the leak happens.It is the specific wording in the announcement released afterward.On October 2, Abahouse International announced unauthorized access to its internal ...
Chris Webb's BI Blog

The Problem With Approximate Distinct Counts In Power BI – And How To Solve It

As you’ve probably seen in the blog post for the September 2026 release of Power BI, Import mode and Direct Lake mode semantic models now support the ApproximateDistinctCount() DAX function. I tested ...

17 Items to Check Before Upgrading to PostgreSQL 19—The One pg_upgrade --check Misses, and Inspection SQL (Measured on 18.6 and 19beta4)

The release notes for PostgreSQL 19 (scheduled for official release in October 2026) contain a section titled "Migration to ...
securityaffairs

PostgreSQL Hit by 12-Year-Old Vulnerability Allowing Server Takeover

PostGREShell (CVE-2026-6471) is a 12-year-old PostgreSQL flaw that lets low-privileged attackers execute code and take over servers. Cyera researchers found a severe PostgreSQL vulnerability, dubbed ...
cybernews

8 Best cheap Windows VPS providers in 2026

Our in-house experts conduct independent, hands-on testing and transparent reviews of VPS hosting providers by using real server environments, and industry-recognized benchmarking methods to ensure ...
Microsoft

SQL Server 2016 end of support is here: Plan your next steps

As of today, July 14, 2026, SQL Server 2016 has reached end of support. For the past decade, SQL Server 2016 has helped organizations run mission-critical applications and support the data needs of ...
FiercePharma

In compensation push, HHS gears up to draft COVID vaccine injury table

The posting did not specify what types of vaccine injuries HHS currently has in mind. (Photo by National Cancer Institute on Unsplash) Aiming to streamline the compensation process for people claiming ...
devblogs

What’s new across Microsoft SQL in 2026 so far (SQL Server, Azure SQL, and SQL database in Fabric)

We’re halfway through 2026, and Microsoft SQL has not slowed down. Since SQLCon/FabCon in March (where we released a ton of things, and those updates can be found in this updates video), we shipped a ...
pocketables

Claiming a new Plex server

I recently was working on a NAS that I wanted to install Plex on and ran into the following – it was installed, it was running, but whenever I went to that server it bounced me to either the Plex.tv ...