Google announced new branded queries filters are rolling out gradually within Google Search Console reporting. You can filter your performance reports by branded or non-branded queries and Google can ...

In a modern enterprise data environment, the increasing volume of data, distributed architecture, and complex application dependencies challenge traditional query-tuning methods. Observability ...

Constructing the truly modern data application, capable of driving data-informed decisions across the organization, requires a lot of effort. To dramatically improve productivity, operational ...

Google’s Robby Stein shares new details about the query fan-out technique in AI Mode, explaining how Google generates and executes its own queries. Google’s query fan-out technique issues multiple ...

What is the default strategy for planning and optimizing queries with joins: How does the engine decide the physical join type (e.g., sort-merge join vs. hash join)? How is the join order determined?

The Automatic Tuner in the NVIDIA app finds the best overclock settings for the GPU and maintains that performance regularly. The Automatic Tuning feature is not ...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) are increasingly integral to database management, driving new levels of automation and intelligence in how data systems are administered. Modern ...

Google's AI overviews appear in 30% of searches and nearly three-quarters of problem-solving queries, according to a new study. AI Overviews mostly appear in mid-volume searches, not high-traffic ...

Existing index tuners typically rely on the “what if” API provided by the query optimizer to estimate the execution cost of a query on top of an index configuration. Such cost estimates can be ...

Workload characterization in DBMS tuning involves analyzing query composition and runtime statistics. Query-level approaches include features from query text, query plans, and data distribution, used ...

Thomas LaRock: "Without a basic understanding of wait events and how the occur, you will waste a lot of time trying and guessing at how to improve the performance of a query." Optimizing SQL Server ...