Dave Page

Vice President & Chief Architect, Database Infrastructure, EDB

Dave Page is Vice President and Chief Architect, Database Infrastructure, currently working in the CTO team on research and development, best practices with Postgres, and providing high-level guidance and support for key customers. 

Dave has been working with PostgreSQL since 1998 and is one of seven members of the open source project's Core Team, as well as serving as Secretary of the Board of PostgreSQL Europe and Chairman of the PostgreSQL Community Association of Canada. He joined EDB in 2007 and has been influential in the company’s direction and development of critical database management tools and product packaging and deployment. Prior to EDB, Dave spent more than a decade with The Vale Housing Association as Head of IT. He joined the organization after spending four years as an electronics technician with the Department of Particle and Nuclear Physics at the University of Oxford. Dave holds a Higher National Certificate in electronic engineering from Oxford Brookes University and a Master’s degree in information technology from the University of Liverpool.

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Business Transformation
In a previous blog post, I talked about using Machine Learning for Capacity Management as I began a journey exploring how machine learning techniques can be used with and as part of PostgreSQL. Machine Learning has numerous applications of course, and the idea of text prediction piqued my interest. Those who know me may be aware that not only do I lead the pgAdmin project (part of which involves...
Business Transformation
Machine Learning has always been a fascinating topic for me, but until recently I've had limited time to really explore it. In my previous role at EDB, I was responsible for our monitoring and management tools, and for a long time I've wanted to look at how we might use machine learning techniques to automate monitoring and management of PostgreSQL deployments. My new role in our CTO office allows...
EDB Labs
PostgreSQL and EDB Postgres Advanced Server (EPAS) are incredibly flexible database servers that offer an almost infinite variety of options for deployment. This can be daunting for those that are just starting on their Postgres journey, so to help those users, we present a set of Reference Architectures to demonstrate a number of common options offering support for different use cases. The...
EDB Labs
The team at Enterprise DB is pleased to announce the release of its new system_stats extension for Postgres and EDB Postgres Advanced Server. What is system_stats extension? The system_stats extension is a library of stored procedures that allow users to access system-level statistics for monitoring Postgres activity. These procedures reveal a variety of system metrics to the database server. By...
Postgres Enterprise Manager or PEM is a comprehensive monitoring and management solution for PostgreSQL and EDB Postgres Advanced Server (EPAS) from EnterpriseDB. It is a distributed application with a number of components that can be installed in many different configurations. The following sections explain what those components are, what their purpose is, and how they work.
EDB Labs
Looking back at recent releases of the PostgreSQL database it is interesting to speculate whether there is an overall theme and if you can tie it to the changing way people are using information technology.
Why do we install as root? A couple of common questions I hear from customers (usually long-time users of a particular database from Redwood) via our guys in the field is “ why do we install our software as root?” And “ why do we run services as postgres?”. The simple, TLDR; answer is “ for security”. A basic principle when securing a software installation is “ install with maximum privilege...
When it comes to enterprises deciding on whether to adopt open source software or commercial software based on open source, it can lead to fierce debate about the relative merits of these different approaches. EDB provides a database management system based on the open source project PostgreSQL and it stands at the junction of open source and commercial software. EDB employs many key PostgreSQL...
The world in which PostgreSQL operates today is very different from its origins in 1986. Where once PostgreSQL might have been considered an academic exercise even following its initial Open Source release, today it operates in a much more dynamic environment. Open source and traditional commercial software now work alongside one another in many data centers. Indeed, they are often competing to...
EDB Labs
A cornerstone of the Management Suite in the EDB Postgres Platform is EDB Postgres Enterprise Manager (PEM). The suite provides key management, monitoring, and development capabilities. PEM is designed for monitoring and managing both small and large fleets of PostgreSQL and EDB Postgres Advanced Server installations on a 24 x 7 basis.