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OSCON, Portland, and PDXPUG
After spending an awesome week in San Francisco, CA I’m lucky enough to be spending another week in the USA, in Portand, OR. The main excuse for showing up here has …
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Talking at the SFPUG
Those days feel really lucky to me. I’m currently visiting friends and customers in San Francisco, and really enjoying my trip here! Of course Josh Berkus took the …
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Back from CHAR(13)
Last week was held the CHAR(13) conference in a great venue in the UK countryside. Not only did we discover UK under good weather conditions and some local beers, we also …
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Archiving data as fast as possible
In a recent article here we’ve been talking about how do do Batch Updates in a very efficient way, using the Writable CTE features available in PostgreSQL 9.1. I …
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Simple Case for Pivoting in SQL
In a recent article Craig Kerstiens from Heroku did demo the really useful crosstab extension. That function allows you to pivot a table so that you can see the data from …
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Conferences Report
Recently I’ve been to some more conferences and didn’t take the time to blog about them, even though I really did have great fun over there. So I felt I …
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Make the Most ouf of SQL
Tonight I had the pleasure to present a talk at the Dublin PostgreSQL User Group using remote technologies. The talk is about how to make the most ouf of PostgreSQL when …
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Nearest Big City
In this article, we want to find the town with the greatest number of inhabitants near a given location. A very localized example We first need to find and import some …
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Bulk Replication
In the previous article here we talked about how to properly update more than one row at a time, under the title Batch Update. We did consider performances, including …
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Batch Update
Performance consulting involves some tricks that you have to teach over and over again. One of them is that SQL tends to be so much better at dealing with plenty of rows …
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Emacs Conference
The Emacs Conference is happening, it’s real, and it will take place at the end of this month in London. Check it out, and register at Emacs Conference Event Brite. …
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HyperLogLog Unions
In the article from yesterday we talked about PostgreSQL HyperLogLog with some details. The real magic of that extension has been skimmed over though, and needs another …