5 Points to Check First When SQL Is Slow: How to Improve Execution Plans, Indexes, and JOINs

When you execute an SQL query, the results do not return quickly.You may have had no issues during development, but the ...

Claude Dashboards numbers: What did it count? The order of checking SQL, update times, and sharing permissions

Is it okay to present graphs created by Claude in meetings? Claude Dashboards, released in beta on October 8, is a feature ...

No Idea If Your AI Is Right? KNOWIDEA Lets Finance Check Every Answer.

Two AI-written queries ask the same database the same question and return the same answer. One is incorrect, and nobody can tell. Then a single missing value appears in the data, and the query with ...
Chris Webb's BI Blog

ApproximateDistinctCount In Power BI Is Sometimes Slower Than DistinctCount

As a follow-on from last week’s post about the new ApproximateDistinctCount function in DAX, I want to share something I found out from my recent testing for this function: ApproximateDistinctCount is ...
Chris Webb's BI Blog

The Problem With Approximate Distinct Counts In Power BI – And How To Solve It

As you’ve probably seen in the blog post for the September 2026 release of Power BI, Import mode and Direct Lake mode semantic models now support the ApproximateDistinctCount() DAX function. I tested ...
HackerNoon

How I'd Build a Self-Healing AI Agent for Zero-Touch Bug Remediation

A practical architecture for self-healing AI agents that detect incidents, investigate with hybrid RAG, remediate through MCP ...
letsdatascience

dbt Labs tells LDS why valid AI-written SQL can report the wrong revenue

A query can run without errors and still count the same sale twice. In written answers to LDS, dbt Labs product director Elias DeFaria explains the difference between SQL validation and business ...
Finanznachrichten

ClickHouse, Inc.: ClickHouse Expands Collaboration With Microsoft, Bringing Fabric Integration, Deeper OneLake Interoperability, and Enterprise Deployment Flexibility

ClickHouse, the company behind the open-source, real-time analytical database that has become the data layer for the AI era, today at The European Microsoft Fabric SQL Community Conference announced a ...
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PostgreSQL subqueries explained with simple examples

PostgreSQL subqueries allow one SQL query to run inside another, making it possible to solve filtering, aggregation, comparison, and table based problems without writing separate queries. The lesson ...
Search Engine Roundtable

Google Search Console Shows AI Mode Queries, Not In Generative AI Reports

While the Google Search Console generative AI performance reports do not share query data, you can still try to figure out which queries are from AI Mode versus normal searches. The SEO community has ...
Federal Bureau of Investigation

Malicious Cyber Actors Targeting Water and Wastewater Sector Internet- Facing Programmable Logic Controllers, Causing Operational Disruptions

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) are issuing this Public Service Announcement (PSA) to warn critical infrastructure asset owners and operators that ...
Search Engine Roundtable

Almost Half Of Google Searches Have AI Overviews & Climbing

Doesn't it feel like you are always seeing AI Overviews at the top of all your Google Search results? Well, new data from Similarweb says that AI Overviews show up for about 43% of all queries.