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venkat971

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About venkat971

Graduated from Carnegie Mellon University – School of Computer Science. Appeared on CMU today magazine for contributions to gift card fraud detection using ML. Later worked for Oracle in the core Database R&D team, and filed a couple of Patents in critical areas of database engine. Currently perceiving entrepreneurial dreams with Stayflexi. Deep Knowledge in Hospitality Technologies due to family business and travel interests. Built commercial booking systems in this space between 2010 – 2012. Co-Invented Flexible Slot based inventory model in 2019 along with co-founders of Stayflexi (patent pending).

I love coffee. I learned how to make a perfect cup from scratch, right from grinding beans to proper latte (sometimes latte art), and doing things this way.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #49048441

    Oracle has something like this, and I worked on this project when I was there. Although I was fascinated by the use cases, the adoption was pretty low in the relational world. http…

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    Comment #49048137

    Yes, we never hired one. When we got the time to hire one, we developed this tool.

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    Comment #49048122

    We are making it open source by month end.

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    Comment #49048109

    Thank you!

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    Comment #49035428

    What is the stack that is required to setup your opensource repo? and what's the machine config you recommend. btw, I liked the pricing page. I am planning to setup a similar prici…

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    Comment #49031937

    optimizing the queries and schema monitoring just one aspect of Deepsql. It has built in BI server - security and policies enforcing module (on who can read what data) - All these …

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    Comment #49031234

    Good luck with your project. happy to exchange notes, feel free to ping me at venkat@deepsql.ai

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    Comment #49031220

    Thanks :) Pl give it a try.

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    Comment #49017363

    Interesting topic, We built and use DeepSQL ( https://deepsql.ai/ ) at Stayflexi(YC) to address some of these issues. It's an DBA agent to prevent schema bloat, over indexing and d…

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    Comment #49016159

    Claude would not do the frequent schema drift changes, data relationships, block the query execution due to PII leak, cardinality calculations of key columns… 20 other parameters t…

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    Comment #49012807

    Hi, yes. Right now we are bundling our key to maintain the consistency of DeepSQL agent performance. We will lift this key bundling very soon, for enterprise deployment we might al…

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    Comment #49012714

    We have cross checked with industry standard tools like pganalyze. Most them analyze the workloads in isolation. There are no continuous evaluations and context carry forward acros…

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    Comment #49011707

    removed that metric. Our goal was to tell a convincing story with case studies. However, you are right on many dimensions that this number means nothing for many optimized scenario…

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    Comment #49011282

    Sorry for the confusion. It's not opensource. For first few installs, we are offering free 3 months and free consulting service to setup the tool end to end at your org. Post that …

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    Comment #49011135

    We did cut our overall DB spend by more than 3x. Our $9K spend drops to $3k - indexes not kicking in, rapid growth of log tables and schema bloat were the culprits. Also, we remove…

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    Comment #49010684

    Deepsql has built in BI dashboards server - You can ask agent to build any BI dashboard from the connected data sources (this can be used by your internal teams or you can even sha…

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    Comment #49010615

    Great point and thanks for the feedback. We made it self-hostable so that data doesn't leave the premises. We haven't open sourced the code yet, but most likely we will head in tha…

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    Comment #49010038

    Deepsql doesn't require any predefined rules + stats, nor you need a DBA to operate it. It's an autonomous agent, that learns your business context, schema, join relationships and …

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    Comment #49004694

    Yes, it has built in storage layer(Postgres and PGVector)

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    Comment #48981005

    Deepsql doesn't replace your DBA, it gives your DBA super powers. In my org, when we had to decide on hiring a DBA, we chose building deepsql and empowered our senior engineer to h…

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    Show HN: DeepSQL – A self-hostable DBA agent for Postgres and MySQL

    Hi HN - I'm Venkat, founder of Stayflexi (YC), CMU CS grad and Ex-Oracle Query Engine team (patents in core databases) DeepSQL started as an internal tool to stop our own databases…

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    Comment #48595359

    Hints are great way to experiment, but should not live in live production queries. From my Oracle database days, we saw many customer workloads where old hints overrode the latest …

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    Comment #48595341

    Associating drop table to scalabe delete is not a good framing. These are two different things, and very sensitive on production workloads if there are FK and MVs involved. Databas…

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    Comment #36267872

    We use Seam, it's the best thing that is happening for the messy IoT integrations.