Postgres Sees a Sharp Rise in Popularity with Developers For a long time now, PostgreSQL has been one of the most frequently deployed relational database management systems. Over the past...
In the days of cloud computing and agile development, it might seem that being a DBA is somewhat less appealing as a career choice. However, the role of DBA is...
Introduction When I first got involved in managing a Postgres database, I was quickly introduced to the need for replication. My first project was to get our databases up on...
The world of the Database Administrator (DBA) has changed since the technology went mainstream in the 1970s, writes Bruce Momjian, co-founder of the PostgreSQL Global Development Group. Over the last...
On Thursday I wrote about the new MongoDB compatible DocumentDB from AWS and its potential impact on MongoDB going forward. Following up from that, a colleague pointed me to a...
In this article we are going to see how database servers work together to allow the second server to take over quickly if the primary server fails(high availability), and to...
There has been a lot of talk about database automation in the last six months and how, as if by magic, it will mean companies no longer have to worry...
Anyone running a database in a production environment with over a hundred users should seriously consider employing a connection pooler to keep resource usage under control.
In my role at EDB, I lead the effort to package our software on Debian and I am also the maintainer of the PostgreSQL YUM and ZYPP repositories, so I...
My friend and colleague Bruce Momjian recently shared in his presentation “Will Postgres Live Forever?” an overview of reasons why companies adopt open source software (OSS) in general. This overview...
