A recent article reports that an Oracle patent on a fast sorting method has expired, allowing open source databases to use it freely. Mark Callaghan, the inventor behind the sorting algorithm, shows ...

The ability to write parts of SQL queries in natural language will help developers speed up their work, analysts say.

The main use case is benchmarking simple CPU-bound query variants against each other during local development. Only PostgreSQL is supported at this point, but pull requests for MySQL or other ...

Abstract: Data plays a crucial role in computer science, serving as its backbone in various applications. Understanding and interacting with data stored in databases often requires technical knowledge ...