DuckDB has recently introduced end-to-end interaction with Iceberg REST Catalogs directly within a browser tab, requiring no ...

Abstract: The Text-to-SQL task has significant application prospects in automating relational database query interfaces. It can reduce user learning costs and improve data query efficiency. However, ...

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

Google is turning its vast public data trove into a goldmine for AI with the debut of the Data Commons Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server — enabling developers, data scientists, and AI agents to ...

Abstract: In recent years, the integration of natural language processing (NLP) with database querying has led to the emergence of Text-to-SQL systems, which enable nontechnical users to interact with ...

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?

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 ...

Modern database systems rely on cost-based query optimizers to come up with good execution plans for input queries. Such query optimizers rely on cost models to estimate the costs of candidate query ...