Do you like databases? Do you want to hear two database professors rant about them? Do you need one of those professors to have a Turing Award for databases? If yes, then join Mike Stonebraker and I next Wed Dec 10 @ 1:00pm EST for database hot takes: www.dbos.dev/webcast-2025...

Here's what we've got in store for you! 🎓 E1: Torsten Grust (@teggy.org) (University of Tübingen) - Recursive Common Table Expressions (CTEs) Demystified 🧨 E2: Abigail Kim (@abigalekim.bsky.social) (Carnegie Mellon University) - Anarchy in the Database (deep dive into DBMS Extensibility)

The latest paper from the #1 CMU-DB PhD student @samarchdb.bsky.social is wild compilation magic! He automatically makes UDFs run 300x faster on SQL Server and 1.3x faster on DuckDB. Code: github.com/SamArch27/PR... Paper: www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol18/...