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SQL Prompt Product Updates - November 2025
SQL Prompt’s November release brings new features to SQL Prompt AI, bug and performance fixes to SQL History and support for SQL Server 2025 preview.
Grafana Tempo: Setup, Configuration, and Best Practices
As systems grow, understanding how a request moves across multiple services becomes harder. Traces help bring this picture together by showing the exact path a request takes, along with the timings that matter. Grafana Tempo is built for this kind of workload. It stores traces efficiently, works well with OpenTelemetry, and keeps the operational overhead low.
Terminate Idle Connections Automatically
Learn how to automatically close inactive connections in your Aiven for PostgreSQL service using pgBouncer’s idle timeout setting. In this demo, we’ll walk through the Aiven Console to adjust the server_idle_timeout value in pgBouncer’s advanced configuration, helping you optimise performance and free up resources by terminating idle connections faster.
New Devart Python Connectors Add Broader Compatibility and Stronger Security
We are thrilled to announce a major update to our Python Connectors line. The release adds support for Python 3.14, PostgreSQL 18, MySQL 9, and MariaDB 12, introduces modern authentication and security options, and delivers notable performance gains across several connectors.
Grafana Mimir 3.0 release: performance improvements, a new query engine, and more
In 2022, we introduced Grafana Mimir, our open source, horizontally scalable, multi-tenant time series database (TSDB) designed for long-term storage of Prometheus and OpenTelemetry metrics. Over the years, Mimir has become a go-to metrics backend within the open source community, with 30 project maintainers and more than 4.7k GitHub stars.
Virtual Generated Columns will make your code more efficient #postgresql #pg18
Virtual Generated Columns are another new feature that we're exploring in PG18.
Building dbRosetta Using AI: Part 1 of Many
Like many of you, over the last couple of years, I’ve been using AI, or, well, let’s just name it appropriately, Large Language Models (LLM), as a part of my job. I’ve also used it in my hobby. With it, I’ve generated snippets of code, tested data conversions, even built a small database for a presentation. However, to date, I haven’t tried doing everything through the LLM. Now, I’m going to.
dotConnect for QuickBooks Online | Secure C# ADO.NET connection with ORM support
Connect your C# .NET applications directly to QuickBooks Online with dotConnect for QuickBooks — a robust, high-performance data provider designed for modern financial integration. Whether you’re building financial dashboards, automating reports, or syncing accounting data, dotConnect gives you seamless, secure access to QuickBooks Online with full Visual Studio integration and rich ORM capabilities.
Create a PostgreSQL Database in 60s
Learn how to set up a PostgreSQL service on Aiven in just one minute. This demo walks you through accessing your account, configuring your new service, and selecting the right options for your needs. We’ll cover selecting an immutable service name, picking the cloud provider and plan, and show how Aiven’s clear deployment feedback makes creating a scalable database fast and straightforward. Get your PostgreSQL database up and running quickly, so you can focus on building your applications.