Google has overhauled Firestore’s query engine, introducing "Pipeline operations" that enable complex server-side aggregations and array unnesting. The update shifts Firestore Enterprise toward an ...

For more than four decades, Willie Nelson's faithful guitar tuner, "Tunin' Tom" Hawkins, was as much a part of the legend ...

Following an investigation by The Guardian that found Google AI Overviews offering misleading information in response to certain health-related queries, the company appears to have removed the AI ...

For developers working with SQL Server, few performance tuning techniques are as essential--or as frequently misunderstood--as indexing. Done right, indexing can drastically improve application ...

This is available in Search Console Insights and gives you a quick way to see the main topics your website is about. Google added Query groups to the Search Console Insights report. Query groups ...

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

Google’s query fan-out technique issues multiple background searches based on initial question. This system is active across AI Mode, Deep Search, and some AI Overview results. The approach relies on ...

Perplexity received 780 million queries in May, CEO Aravind Srinivas shared onstage at Bloomberg’s Tech Summit on Thursday. Srinivas said that the AI search engine is seeing more than 20% growth month ...

What is the default strategy for planning and optimizing queries with joins: How does the engine decide the physical join type (e.g., sort-merge join vs. hash join)? How is the join order determined?

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 ...