Elizabeth Garrett Christensen: Query Plan Hints in PostgreSQL 19: How & When to Use Advice
Query hints: You asked for it, Postgres 19 gave it to you. Now, they are just waiting to see how you use it. For years the Postgres community was against adding support for hints. They felt if you had correctly analyzed tables, the Postgres query planner would make the right choice. And they're not wrong, for the most part. Yet…
Oracle adds AI to financial crime and compliance products
Oracle Financial Services today expanded its financial crime and compliance management portfolio with the availability of Oracle Nexus Case Flow and Oracle Nexus Reach for financial crime investigations.
SQL Server on Azure Local is now generally available
With SQL Server on Azure Local, customers can modernize where their data resides while maintaining control over infrastructure, connectivity, and data placement. The post SQL Server on Azure Local is now generally available appeared first on Microsoft SQL Server Blog.
SQLCon Barcelona 2026: Advancing SQL with greater control, scale, and intelligence
We're bringing the Azure control plane and management to wherever you are, providing a consistent SQL and Azure experience. The post SQLCon Barcelona 2026: Advancing SQL with greater control, scale, and intelligence appeared first on Microsoft SQL Server Blog.
What ERP Support Deadlines Actually Mean for Companies
SAP, Oracle, and Microsoft set very different ERP support timelines. SAP's 2027, 2030, and 2033 dates determine when customers must decide, but the right path still depends on migration effort, architecture, and a business value case. The post What ERP Support Deadlines Actually Mean for Companies appeared first on ERP Today.
Oracle launches Oracle Health Oncology EHR with AI assistant
Oracle has introduced an oncology EHR, reportedly offering access to built-in AI agents and clinical decision support, intended to connect results, decision making, and action across the cancer care pathway. Oracle Health Oncology EHR is said to incorporate oncology-specific workflows, AI-powered clinical intelligence, and connected information to support patient care […]
Devrim GÜNDÜZ: RHEL / Rocky Linux / AlmaLinux repository RPMs now follow the OS minor version
Since I started building packages separately on each supported RHEL minor version, there has been a repository RPM for each minor version (9.6, 9.7, 9.8, 10.0, ...) in addition to the one for the major versio (9, 10). All of them share the same package name, and the minor version specific ones are also published in the repository of the…
Stefan Fercot: pgBackRest and PostgreSQL failover: why archive_mode matters
A recent question on the community channels described a difficult situation: a standby had been promoted with archive_mode=off, and restarting the new primary was something the team wanted to avoid. Could they enable archiving on a downstream standby and take a pgBackRest backup from there instead? Their attempt failed with archive_mode must be enabled, even with archive-mode-check=n. Removing the checks…