For businesses handling personal data, security of their database is a serious matter. Faced with an increasing number of attacks, an organization must improve their security and compliance policies, improve their database infrastructure and ensure all proper security protocols are in place.
Legal documents = SCARY!! That’s the typical equation, and it’s true – except when it comes to PostgreSQL. Let me explain… I have been told by both prospects and clients, that when they sit down to negotiate terms with Oracle, they are faced with more lawyers than they have engineers. No wonder one shudders at […]
PostgreSQL has been my livelihood since 2004 – so I am naturally biased in its favor. I think it is the coolest piece of software on the planet, and I am not alone. DB-Engines See those 2 badges up there? That’s 2 years in a row. DB-Engines monitors a total of 343 databases and their […]
Some people go to great lengths to avoid GROUP BY and HAVING clauses in their queries. The error messages are fussy but they are usually right. GROUP BY and HAVING key words are essential for good SQL reporting. The primary reason for GROUP BY is to reduce the number of rows, usually by aggregation. It […]
LATERAL The primary feature of LATERAL JOIN is to enable access elements of a main query in a subquery which can be very powerful. Several common uses of LATERAL are to: denormalize arrays into parent child tables aggregation across several tables row or action generation. Note, however, that the subquery will execute for each main […]
The demand for PostgreSQL within the financial industry has been rapidly increasing in the recent years; mainly due to reduction in licensing costs, better choice of open source tools, and the robust enterprise features that PostgreSQL provides. 2ndQuadrant hosted the “Banking on Postgres” webinar to discuss attributes of financial databases based on Postgres, configuration processes, […]
After the final release of patch 9.3.25 on November 8th 2018, PostgreSQL 9.3 is no longer supported. Therefore it’s time for all users of PG 9.3 to upgrade their databases to a newer supported version. The benefits of having a supported version are many and that’s what Craig Ringer talks about in the Q&A session […]
I don’t often get to speak on technical topics, but the video of my presentation below covers various concepts around “Ansible and PostgreSQL” – something I am very enthusiastic about. This presentation covers the following topics: Overview of Ansible and PostgreSQL Best strategies for mixed cloud and on-premises deployments How to deploy AlwaysOn PostgreSQL clusters […]
Postgres contains a moving event horizon, which is in effect about 2 billion transactions ahead of or behind the current transaction id. Transactions more than 2 billion ahead of or more than 2 billion behind the current transaction id are considered to be in the future, and will thus be invisible to current transactions. Postgres […]
PostgreSQL 11, the next major release of the world’s most advanced open source database, is just around the corner. The new release of PostgreSQL will include enhancements in partitioning, parallelism, SQL stored procedures and much more. To give PostgreSQL enthusiasts a deeper look into the upcoming release, 2ndQuadrant hosted a Webinar discussing the new features […]
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