At PostgreSQL Conference East, Platinum Sponsor EnterpriseDB raffled two Netbooks. This is the video of the raffle (only 5 minutes). Of particular interest is a certain Major Contributors response.
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Escaping data madness
We had an interesting issue crop up this past week. The question was, "How do we properly escape the following string...?". The string was:
You can't have it that way can you?That seems like a pretty simple string right? On insert you would do one of the following:
(E'You can\'t have it that way can you?');
($$You can't have it that way can you?$$);
('You can''t have it that …Registration closing for PostgreSQL Conference East
As a reminder for all of those in our community that like to register at the last minuted (that means most of us), registration will be closing on Wednesday April first. On line registration is much easier than registering at the door so please bounce on over to PostgreSQL.us/purchase and get your registration in.
PostgreSQL Training
Command Prompt has offered training since we began as a one man shop back in 1997. It has always been, "by request". Since that time a lot of things have changed and we are regularly receiving training requests from multiple companies. We have decided to finally bring our training into the light and make it a forefront of the services that CMD offers.
Interestingly we are going to be providing …
PostgreSQL Conference East: Final Schedule announced
PostgreSQL Conference East is the Eastern segment of the United States PostgreSQL Conference series. The event is being held at Drexel University. It starts on April 3rd and runs through April 5.
We kick the conference off on April 3rd with three sessions. For DBAs we have Mastering PostgreSQL Administration a four hour training, presented by PostgreSQL Core Team member Bruce Momjian. For Developers we have a Database Normalization, a …
More PostgreSQL Conference goodness, West 08 Keynote
This is the Keynote I gave at West 08 last October. Topics include updates on the various non-profits, reach out to tertiary communities, recognition of the importance of non direct PostgreSQL participation as well as many others (such as 8.4 and replication). Those interested in participating in the upcoming East should visit here and register.
Can we do anything more in 6 months?
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Remembering excellence from past PostgreSQL Conferences
Just about 5 months ago we held PostgreSQL Conference, West 2008 in Portland Oregon. It was a very successful conference with approximate 20% growth over the previous West in 2007. It was also a three day conference over the previous West event which was a single day conference. As we prep to hold PostgreSQL Conference, East 2009 at Drexel University I wanted to look back at one of my favorite …
Pg Conference East 09, Registration open
This year is shaping up to be an even larger even than last year with 3 days, four rooms, and multiple tracks. East runs from April 3rd to April 5th at Drexel University.
To register please point your Open Source web browser to PgUS. Registration is free for Students and Professors and starts at as low as 40.00 for University staff.
Once you have registered make sure to visit and …
Seven things
Theo Schlossnagle recently wrote a blog post called seven things. The idea is, seven things that you "might" want to know about him. Along those lines he listed me as someone he would like to know seven things about. It has taken me a while to get to the post because I have been busy with various things. So here we go, seven things about me.
- I have crashed …
PostgreSQL Conference: Talk deadline approaching
The deadline (Feb, 23rd) is fast approaching for PostgreSQL Conference East talk submissions. Get your talk in today!