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Evisceration: Learning from colorful mistakes
Do I get to attend a talk?
This year at West I am hoping to attend a couple of talks. There are a few that are particularly interesting to me. The …
Headed to Utah Open Source Conference
This talk aims to solve the performance (and maintenance) problems most associated with a default install of PostgreSQL. The depth of the talk is limited and is designed specifically for people who are *not* database people, e.g; Web Developers …
MySQL does what? (Division by integers and 0)
mysql> SELECT 3/5; -> 0.60To be honest, I can't fault MySQL for this behavior. It falls in line with the MySQL mantra of make it easy, not "necessarily" correct. A division of 3/5 in a …
PGXN: Are you a benefactor?
Today, we put our money where our rather obnoxious mouth is and became a benefactor (at the tune of …
PgWest 2010: Talk Descriptions are up
PgWest, have you booked your room?
Oracle MySQL increasing support pricing
Oracle owns another fairly well known Open Source database, BerkeleyDB. The pricing for BerkeleyDB. suggests that MySQL may be in for a culture shock. MySQL appears to have removed their support pricing from its website (a move that should not provide …
Break out your credit card, support #PGXN
That said, it is time to pony up. David Wheeler has put in some serious effort, well thought out, professionally designed and peer reviewed effort on delivering a new architecture for PostgreSQL software and modules. He needs our financial support.
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