LONDON, Oct. 23, 2017 /PRNewswire/
-- EnterpriseDB® (EDB™), the database
platform company for digital business, today announced that
some of the company's leading Postgres experts will be among the
speakers at the PostgreSQL Conference Europe 2017. Members of EDB's
executive ranks as well as several engineers will deliver training
sessions, presentations, and a keynote address during the event,
which runs October 24-27, at the
Warsaw Marriott Hotel in Poland.
EDB is a major supporter of the PostgreSQL project, including
events like the PostgreSQL Conference Europe (PGConf.EU) that
foster greater awareness of PostgreSQL and end user education. Such
forums provide Postgres users with opportunities to expand their
skills during extended training and conference sessions. They
further enable community members to network, collaborate on
emerging use cases and share best practices.
Some of the EDB engineers who are presenting are also leaders in
the PostgreSQL community. They include:
- Dave Page, Vice President and
Chief Architect, Tools and Installers, is a member of the
PostgreSQL Global Development Group Core Team. He is a member of
PostgreSQL Europe board of directors as well as a member of the
organizing committee for PostgreSQL Conference Europe 2017. Page
will deliver the event's closing remarks on Friday, Oct. 27, at 4:15
pm, titled So Long, and Thanks for all the Fish.
- Bruce Momjian, Senior Database
Architect, is a Core Team Member of the PostgreSQL Global
Development Group. Momjian will present a training on Tuesday, Oct. 24, from 9
am to 12:30 pm, titled Mastering PostgreSQL
Administration. At 3:40 pm on
Thursday, Oct. 26, Momjian will
deliver a presentation titled Postgres Window Magic at
3:40 pm. He will explain using window
function facilities to produce optimal SQL query results.
- Robert Haas, Vice President and
Chief Database Architect, who is recognized as a Major Contributor
to the PostgreSQL project, will lead a training on Tuesday, Oct. 24 from 9 am
to 12:30 pm titled The PostgreSQL Query Planner. On
Wednesday, Oct. 25, Haas will deliver
a presentation titled Everything Wrong with Partitioning in
PostgreSQL 10 at 3 pm. His talk
will emphasize the known challenges with partitioning in PostgreSQL
to highlight opportunities for improvement in future releases.
Additional Postgres experts and executives from EDB will be
presenting on:
Thursday, Oct. 26
Andres Freund, Senior Database Architect, will
deliver a presentation titled Improving Postgres' Efficiency
at 9:30 am. Freund will explore how
PostgreSQL development could improve the ability of PostgreSQL to
utilize cores more efficiently and the techniques and workloads
most impacted.
Jan Karremans, Senior Sales
Engineer, will participate in a joint presentation titled What
Happens When More than 30 Years of Oracle Experience Hit
PostgreSQL at 10:30 am.
Karremans will discuss the common challenges Oracle DBAs face
when transitioning to PostgreSQL. He will be joined by Daniel Westermann, Senior Consultant and
Technology Leader Open Infrastructure at DBI-Services, an EDB
partner in Switzerland.
Friday, Oct. 27
Devrim Gündüz, Principal
Systems Engineer, will deliver a presentation titled Scale Your
PostgreSQL at 1:40 pm. During his
talk, Gündüz will cover the options for scaling vertically and
horizontally in PostgreSQL, both built-in and
third-party.
Marc Linster, Ph.D., Senior Vice
President, Product Development, will deliver a keynote address on
Friday titled Postgres in a World of DevOps at 3:50 pm. Linster will explain how PostgreSQL
occupies a pivotal position in the datacenter, supporting
traditional architectures as well as more flexible configurations
that support DevOps motion.
In addition to making major contributions to the open source
PostgreSQL project, EDB is also a PostgreSQL packager and makes the
database available to customers as part of the EDB Postgres™
Standard Edition. Customers making this selection adopt open source
PostgreSQL but also get an integrated set of supported tools,
developed by EDB using best-in-class technology, and a powerful
DBaaS management console. Customers also get full access to the
deep capabilities and resources of a Gartner recognized,
enterprise-class vendor, including a full menu of training and
professional services offerings
EDB chose PGConf.EU to kick off a series of events being held
across Europe to help
organizations learn more about PostgreSQL innovation and the
flexibility of open source-based EDB Postgres. The free events, the
EDB Postgres Rocks Cafe series, will be held at Hard Rock Cafes in
major cities across Europe. The
first will be Tuesday, Oct. 24, at
the Hard Rock Cafe in Warsaw. For
details and to find a location new you, click here.
For additional information on EDB Postgres, the EDB Postgres
Standard Edition, and how EDB can support the deployment and
expansion of Postgres, contact sales@edbpostgres.com.
About EnterpriseDB Corporation
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(EDB™), the database platform company for digital business,
delivers the premier open source-based data platform for new
applications, cloud re-platforming, application modernization, and
legacy migration. EnterpriseDB integrates with enterprise
technologies and infrastructures for hybrid cloud management, data
integration, and data warehousing. Our customers benefit from the
highest performing, most reliable, flexible, open, and
cost-effective data management platform available. EnterpriseDB is
based in Bedford, Massachusetts.
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