The most recent meeting of ISO/IEC JTC1 SC32 WG3 “Database Languages” took place from the 15th to the 19th of June 2026 in Stockholm. “WG3”, as we call it, works on standardizing the database languages SQL and GQL. In that meeting, a…

here for more background) Recently, I helped a customer investigate database problems. It turned out that these problems could be traced back to too many tables in the database. Since this may come as a surprise to many users, I thought it…

Upgrading PostgreSQL 19 clusters has become more seamless with tools like pg_upgrade and pg_createsubscriber, which together enable near-zero-downtime upgrades by first converting physical replicas into logical subscribers and then…

It has been a busy stretch on the AWS Summit circuit. At the New York City Summit, I delivered a workshop called Building AI architectures with AWS Serverless, and it was a lot of fun watching builders wire up agents and serverless…