The open source MySQL spin-off has steadily added features all its own. Here are five good reasons to switch to MariaDB.

Abstract: Efficient SQL Query Optimization (QO) is a fundamental aspect of database management systems, aimed at enhancing query performance and reducing resource consumption typically involves ...

Forge 2025.3 adds AI Assistant to SQL Complete, supports SSMS 22, Visual Studio 2026, MySQL 9.5, MariaDB 12.2, and ...

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

If I remove the OR condition inside the parhentesis works. My first thought is to debug the execution and at a certain point the query is "flatten". Not sure why, maybe for index optimization? In the ...

The SQL optimizer incorrectly alters the logic of a query that uses CTEs and nested JOIN operations. WITH `res` AS ( SELECT `t2`.`id`, CAST(IF(NOT `t3`.`id` IS NULL, 1, 0) AS BIGINT) AS `id_active`, ...

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 ...

Abstract: SQL query optimization aims to choose an optimal Query Execution Plan (QEP) for a query. The existing optimizers usually choose the plan with the minimal execution cost. However, in some ...

The query optimizer is a crucial component in a relational database system and is responsible for finding a good execution plan for a SQL query. For cloud database service providers, the importance of ...

I'm on a project that inherited some old generalized metadata search code and it can get terribly bogged down speed-wise. It's a bit annoying wait a couple minutes for a search to run: an example ...