DataGrip 1.0: A new IDE for Databases and SQL — Formerly 0xDBE, DataGrip is a new database-focused IDE from JetBrains (the creators of IntelliJ and WebStorm). It supports Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, Sybase, MySQL, Postgres, SQLite, Derby, HyperSQL and H2 out of the box.

Literate SQL — Literate programming involves arranging source code in the order of human logic and thought, but SQL’s subqueries often make this tricky in SQL. SQL:1999s WITH clause can help, as demonstrated here.

Gaffer: A Large-Scale Graph Database — A large-scale graph database oriented towards scenarios where the nodes and edges have associated statistics like counts and histograms. Unusual in that it comes from GCHQ, Britain’s official SIGINT organization.

Holiday Traffic Overloading Your Servers? Let VividCortex Help. — You want your site running smoothly for the mass of holiday shoppers, and so do we. VividCortex allows everyone on your team to see the affects of their code, so you can prevent problems before they happen, and fix them quickly when they do. Sign up for a free trial today.

SqlPad: A Web App for Running SQL Queries and Visualizing The Results — Run SQL in your browser, chart the results, supports MySQL, SQL Server and Vertica.

Migrating Mountains of Big Data to AWS — The developers of League of Legends have collected petabytes of metrics about their game and here they explain how they imported it into Amazon Web Services.

MongoDB 3.2: Now 'Powered' by PostgreSQL — An extensive writeup about how MongoDB 3.2 will use Postgres in its ‘legacy BI connector’ so that SQL-based BI systems can operate against it.