Database performance impacts application tiers and user experience, as well as cloud costs. Yet, understanding database issues is challenging. Whether it's MySQL, PostgreSQL, or cloud databases like ...

A federated SQL query execution engine created at Facebook, Presto brings interactive querying to all of your data — no matter where it resides Presto! It’s not only an incantation to excite your ...

As a consultant whose job description includes putting out performance fires, I get to see a lot of problematic queries that can dramatically harm overall server performance and throughput. Wondering ...

SQL is neither the fastest nor the most elegant way to talk to databases, but it is the best way we have. Here’s why Today, Structured Query Language is the standard means of manipulating and querying ...