If you think AI is just talk, think again — MCP is turning chatbots into doers, and the future of work may never look the same. You’ve seen them: Those incredible large language models (LLMs) that can ...

I’m getting the sense from your letter that you might be approaching dating as finding someone to fill a role, rather than getting to know an individual and sharing yourself with them, which might be ...

Prequel is a SQL query engine built in C#. The goal of this project is to demonstrate how query engines are built, and to bring a query engine to the .NET community. The project contains a ...

Abstract: SQL query optimization (QO) is a critical component of database management systems, essential for improving query execution times, enhancing resource utilization, and ensuring scalability in ...

A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that provides read-only MySQL database queries for AI assistants. Execute queries, explore database structures, and investigate your data directly from your ...

This essay was adapted from the parenting newsletter the Pomegranate. Subscribe here. When my son was about 2, we brought him to a beer garden in D.C. that turned out to have a working historic ...

In November 2024, we announced the next major release of SQL Server: SQL Server 2025. SQL Server 2025, now in private preview, includes capabilities to build AI applications including vector and AI ...

Alex Merced is the co-author of O'Reilly's "Apache Iceberg: The Definitive Guide" and a developer advocate for Dremio ...