Not quite two years ago I had the privilege to give one of the sponsor keynotes at PGConf.NYC 2021. At the time I was a Timescale employee. But rather than focus solely on how Timescale could solve the problems of people in the room, the leadership gave me freedom to share a vision for increasing … Read more
For this month’s PGSQL Phriday #011, Tomasz asked us to think about PostgreSQL partitioning vs. sharding. This is a topic near and dear to me and I’m excited to think about it some this month. For 20+ years of database and application development, time-series data has always been at the heart of the products I … Read more
Years ago I read a blog post by Mike Walsh from StraightPath Solutions called You are Free: Career Lessons from a farm fence. At the time I was struggling with my role at work and an increasing desire to be more involved with the database community. This blog post lit a fire and encouraged me … Read more
The host for PGSQL Phriday #009 is Dian Fay, who has asked us to discuss how we manage database changes. Oh my, Dian picked a topic that’s near and dear to me. In fact, one of my (still visible) T-SQL Tuesday blog posts was about this very topic… 7 years ago! Quick aside: For those … Read more
This is part of a series I began in 2018, documenting my journey from SQL Server to PostgreSQL. As someone that’s been through the process before, my hope is that these discussions will help mitigate some of the surprises and help you get up to speed faster. Today, I’m going to dig into how PostgreSQL … Read more