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How to Connect Your MySQL Instance to a Grafana Datasource

Dec 17, 2025 By Benjamin Pitts In MetricFire

Grafana’s MySQL datasource makes it easy to turn raw database rows into clean, interactive dashboards. Whether you're testing out a new monitoring setup or experimenting with time-series data, MySQL + Grafana gives you a powerful foundation for building visualizations quickly.

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Spotify's performance & control across large monitoring environments with VictoriaMetrics

Dec 16, 2025 By Adam Yates In VictoriaMetrics

When your active time series is in the billions and the total number of data points you need to monitor runs into the tens of trillions, you need a high-performance observability solution with operational simplicity. Streaming behemoth Spotify is one such case. Their observability team chose VictoriaMetrics as the fastest monitoring and observability solution on the market.

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Reinvent Your SQL Coding With dbForge AI Assistant in Seconds

Dec 16, 2025 By Devart In Devart

Want to see how dbForge AI Assistant works? This quick video shows how the Assistant generates SQL, explains it, fixes errors, optimizes queries, and converts natural language to SQL. No manual coding needed Works inside multiple dbForge products.

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Harness Database DevOps Now Supports Google AlloyDB

Dec 16, 2025 By Animesh Pathak In Harness

Harness Database DevOps now natively supports Google AlloyDB, enabling enterprises to manage PostgreSQL-compatible schema changes with CI/CD, GitOps, and policy-driven governance. Teams gain faster, safer, and fully auditable database delivery while reducing operational risk and manual overhead across environments. As organizations double down on cloud modernization, Google Cloud’s AlloyDB for PostgreSQL is quickly becoming the preferred engine for mission-critical applications.

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Building dbRosetta Part 6: Let's Make a Web Page

Dec 15, 2025 By Grant Fritchey In Redgate

Once more in this series, we’re moving into areas where I’m not entirely comfortable. I haven’t built a PHP plugin and web page, ever. However, we’re going to put the LLM/AI and associated agents to work on this task. As with so much else when working with AI, it all starts with the prompt, so let’s go there.

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AI + Aiven Databases = Magic

Dec 15, 2025 By Yonatan Dvir In Aiven

Introducing Aiven’s New PG AI Editor - A simpler, faster, developer-friendly way to work with PostgreSQL.

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VictoriaMetrics Achieves Red Hat OpenShift Operator Certification

Dec 15, 2025 By Adam Yates / Vadim Rutkovsky In VictoriaMetrics

VictoriaMetrics has achieved Red Hat OpenShift Certification, awarded to Red Hat partners who meet requirements for delivering a scalable, supported, and secure operator designed for enterprise cloud deployments. VictoriaMetrics available on the Red Hat OpenShift OperatorHub The program certified VictoriaMetrics as a solution that allows for portability and operational efficiency across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

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dbForge AI Assistant Overview for SQL Developers

Dec 15, 2025 By Devart In Devart

Meet dbForge AI Assistant — your AI-powered copilot for SQL coding, query optimization, explanations, troubleshooting, and conversion of natural language to SQL code. This overview shows how the Assistant works inside dbForge products and how it helps developers, DBAs, analysts, and teams increase productivity. Key features: Context-aware SQL generation Conversion of natural language to SQL Query optimization SQL explanations Troubleshooting and error insights AI chat for SQL-related questions Optional web search.

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QuickBooks to Power BI: Devart's Alternative to Microsoft's Deprecated Connector

Dec 12, 2025 By Rosemary Asufi In Devart

Microsoft officially pulled the plug on the native QuickBooks Power BI connector, triggering immediate reporting disruptions for many businesses. Automated refresh stopped working, dashboards went stale, and financial reporting pipelines that once ran in the background began to fail without warning. This changed daily finance operations. Finance teams were forced back into manual CSV exports, delayed updates, and fragile reporting workflows.

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TOP MySQL ODBC Drivers 2026

Dec 12, 2025 By Rosemary Asufi In Devart

ODBC MySQL drivers have become a critical layer in the performance, stability, and scalability of modern analytics systems. And the broader market confirms that shift. Forecasts now put the ODBC market segment at USD 4.38 billion by 2029, clear proof that this once-overlooked layer is becoming a priority inside enterprise data stacks. But what many teams still underestimate is the spread in quality of these tools. While ODBC drivers serve the same purpose, they do not all deliver the same results.

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