Webcasts

PostgreSQL Adoption and Trends
Bruce Momjian, PostgreSQL Core Committer and EnterpriseDB Senior Database Architect

This hour-long presentation is for people who are unfamiliar with the open source community or need to work directly with the community. The talk highlights how open source development differs from proprietary development, the pattern of PostgreSQL adoption, and PostgreSQL trends.

Open Source Database Adoption Trends for 2010
Matt Aslett, Senior Analyst, The 451 Group
Larry Alston, VP Marketing and Product Management, EnterpriseDB

This webcast explores how you can effectively leverage open source software to achieve success in your current and future projects. It covers open source software trends, critical factors you should consider when using open source databases, and best practices for successful deployments of open source software.

Securing PostgreSQL from External Attack
Bruce Momjian, PostgreSQL Community Leader and EnterpriseDB Senior Architect

Database systems are rich with attack vectors to exploit. This presentation explores the many potential PostgreSQL external vulnerabilities and shows how they can be secured.

The Top 5 Ways to Supercharge Your Database
Craig Silveira, Director, Sales Engineering, EnterpriseDB Corporation

Join Craig for 60 minutes and learn 5 simple ways to supercharge your Postgres Plus and PostgreSQL databases to gain the best performance.

Postgres Plus Family Product Tour
Gary Carter, Product Manager, EnterpriseDB Corporation

This presentation details the features and capabilities of the Postgres Plus family of products.

PostgreSQL Performance Tuning
Bruce Momjian, PostgreSQL Community Leader and EnterpriseDB Senior Architect

This two part presentation covers every aspect of performance: server settings, caching, sizing operating system resources, optimizer processing, problem queries, storage efficiency, and some hardware selection details.

Postgres Plus Advanced Server v8.3 R2 Features
Gary Carter, Product Manager, EnterpriseDB Corporation

Postgres Plus Advanced Server delivers both the low cost of open source software and powerful features of commercial databases by providing added value to the community version of PostgreSQL. This webinar provides a brief presentation of the latest features for Postgres Plus Advanced Server v8.3 R2.

Migrating Oracle^® to Postgres Plus Advanced Server
Craig Silveira, Director, Sales Engineering, EnterpriseDB Corporation

This presentation will briefly identify popular Oracle compatibility strategies such as edge application deployments, special purpose databases for replication and reporting/BI, and full database migration.

Data Processing Inside PostgreSQL
Bruce Momjian, PostgreSQL Community Leader and EnterpriseDB Senior Architect

This three part presentation series is for those who are familiar with databases and SQL, but want to learn how to move processing from their applications into the database to improve consistency, administration, and performance.

Mastering PostgreSQL Administration
Bruce Momjian, PostgreSQL Community Leader and EnterpriseDB Senior Architect

This three part presentation series covers all aspects of PostgreSQL administration, including installation, security, file structure, configuration, reporting, backup, daily maintenance, monitoring activity, disk space computations, and disaster recovery.

Inside PostgreSQL Shared Memory
Bruce Momjian, PostgreSQL Community Leader and EnterpriseDB Senior Architect

This presentation is for people who want to understand how PostgreSQL shares information among processes using shared memory.

PostgreSQL Replication Solutions
Bruce Momjian, PostgreSQL Community Leader and EnterpriseDB Senior Architect

This presentation outlines the major needs for replication and major solutions, including those currently implemented in PostgreSQL and those in development.

Building Enterprise-Ready Application Images for the Cloud
Bob Zurek, Chief Technology Officer, EnterpriseDB Corporation
Marty Wesley, Chief Evangelist and Sr. Director of Marketing, rPath

Using rPath technology and a proven open source database like Postgres Plus, software applications and their required components can easily be transformed into images that will run on cloud architecture.

The Great Debate: PostgreSQL vs MySQL^®
Jim Mlodgenski, Vice President, Worldwide Technical Services, EnterpriseDB Corporation

DBAs, developers, and IT managers and decision-makers will benefit from this hour-long presentation about the pros and cons of using PostgreSQL or MySQL.

What Leading DBMS Vendors Don't Want You to Know
Curt Monash, Founder, Monash Research

For most applications at any enterprise - and for all applications at most enterprises - super high-end DBMS aren't required. Most Oracle or DB2 applications would run perfectly well on more cost-effective alternatives.

Getting the Most from PostgreSQL Databases
Bruce Momjian, PostgreSQL Community Leader and EnterpriseDB Senior Architect

View this webcast to learn about the advanced open source database that rivals proprietary database for most applications.

Database Worst Practices: The Top 5 Mistakes Developers Make
Jim Mlodgenski, Vice President, Worldwide Technical Services, EnterpriseDB Corporation

Applications today are growing more and more complex, and with that complexity comes the increased risk of error. Join EnterpriseDB experts as they discuss the "Top 5" mistakes that developers make and how to avoid them.

Using EnterpriseDB to Offload Reporting and Save Money
Derek M. Rodner, Director, Product Strategy, EnterpriseDB Corporation

Learn how Postgres Plus Advanced Server is being used to offload reporting from production Oracle databases to increase productivity and performance, while saving companies millions of dollars.

What is Enterprise-Class? Selecting the Right Database for Your Application
Curt Monash, Founder, Monash Research

Renowned industry guru Curt Monash provides an objective context in which to evaluate and select the right DBMS based on your application's needs.