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Fill Out The State of the Database Landscape Survey and Maybe Win

Posted on August 15, 2023 by way0utwest

If you’re like me, you sometimes wonder how different other environments are from the one I work in. Well, the ones I used to work in. These days I see lots of customers environment, build PoCs, and help them solve … Continue reading →

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Information Schema Strangeness

Posted on April 5, 2023 by way0utwest

There was a Slack thread at Redgate recently where a developer was showing some code where they decided to use the “extra” column from the information_schema.columns view. They were making decisions on how to detect certain metadata about a column … Continue reading →

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The Rise of Vector Databases

Posted on February 1, 2023 by way0utwest

I had never heard of a vector database. I assumed this was a specialist type of database used for a particular problem domain, like a streaming database or graph database. There is a need for specialized platforms in certain situations, … Continue reading →

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The Challenge of New Platforms

Posted on November 21, 2022 by way0utwest

I saw a customer asking about Exasol recently, which is an in-memory, columnar database. I know nothing about it, and it might work great, but we don’t support it. I didn’t think much of it, as I’m sure the customer … Continue reading →

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