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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EDB Labs

pgAdmin 4 - The Elephant Nears the Finish Line

As you may know, many of us from the pgAdmin team have been hard at work on pgAdmin 4 for some time now.

The story of pgAdmin

I’m often asked how I first became involved in PostgreSQL, and how the pgAdmin project got started. Much as I’m happy to tell the story over beer, it becomes tedious to do so over email after the first half-dozen or so times. So in a vain attempt to save my fingers from future carpal tunnel syndrome, here’s the tale...
EDB Labs

StackBuilder Package Updates

If you've ever used one of the PostgreSQL installers for v8.2 or above, either the old Windows MSI installer or the newer "one click" installers that also support Linux and Mac, you'll probably have come across StackBuilder. For those that haven't or those that never found the time, StackBuilder was introduced with the PostgreSQL 8.2 installer to allow us to distribute different components of PostgreSQL independently of the server itself.

Postgres Enterprise Manager; I love it when a plan comes together

After 9 months of heads-down work, I'm glad to finally be able to talk about the project I and a number of colleagues here at EnterpriseDB have been working on... Introducing Postgres Enterprise Manager! Postgres Enterprise Manager, or PEM as we tend to call it, is based on the Open Source pgAdmin project which I started over thirteen(!) years ago to give users a graphical tool for managing and...
EDB Labs

PostgreSQL 9.1, meet MySQL

So having spent the last few months with my head buried deep in a project at work, I finally managed to get back to my previous hacking on SQL/MED at the weekend after the kids went away for a week (good $DEITY it's quiet here)! Within a couple of hours, I had my half-baked Foreign Data Wrapper for MySQL up and running, and am now able to create foreign table objects in PostgreSQL 9.1 that map...
Business Transformation

Postgres, Passwords and Installers

By far the most common issues we see reported with the "one-click" PostgreSQL installers that we build here at EnterpriseDB are password related. In this post I'll explain what the passwords are, why we need them, and how to reset them. Superuser Password
EDB Labs

Comparing VoltDB to Postgres, Postgres Plus Advanced Server

I've been asked a few times recently for my opinion on VoltDB, the new database server architected by the 'father' of Postgres, Dr. Michael Stonebraker so rather than repeating myself over and over again it seems like a good idea to write it all down.

Postgres vs. SQL Server

A colleague of mine (thanks Jimbo!) pointed me towards a benchmark comparison of Postgres 8.3.8 on RHEL 5.4 versus SQL Server 2008 R2 on Windows Server 2008 R2, performed and written up by Red Hat. I hadn't seen it before, so figured that maybe others hadn't either: http://www.redhat.com/pdf/rhel/bmsql-postgres-sqlsrvr-v1.0-1.pdf Can't wait for the result? The elephant wins :-)