DBTA E-EDITION
June 2026
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Trends and Applications
Are data infrastructures ready to deliver insights at the speed of thought—or, for that matter, at the speed of an AI prompt? For decades, batch processing was the mode of data delivery—and organizations built their analytical environments in which information was several hours, or maybe a day, old. Then, as the digital economy evolved, certain parts of the data infrastructure moved to near real time, meaning results to queries were delivered within a half-hour to several hours.
Columns - DBA Corner
In many environments, there is a quiet compromise that gets made every day. It rarely shows up in project plans or architecture diagrams. No one formally approves it. But it happens, nonetheless. "Good enough" SQL gets promoted to production.
Columns - SQL Server Drill Down
According to recent data from the SolarWinds "State of Monitoring and Observability Report," 51% of IT pros believe database performance would benefit from better observability. Oftentimes, database observability suffers because teams have multiple, disparate observability and monitoring tools. This tool sprawl creates blind spots that make it harder to identify and react to database performance issues.
Columns - Emerging Technologies
As part of my On Assignment LinkedIn article series, I've continued to explore what candidates rarely see: the inner workings of recruitment databases and how recruiters actually use them in real time. This assignment took me deeper into a critical but often overlooked part of the hiring ecosystem: how resumes are categorized, stored, and retrieved and how small details can dramatically impact whether a candidate is ever seen.