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LewisC's An Expert's Guide To Oracle Technology The datastore in Postgres (which is what Advanced Server is based on) is quite a bit different than the way Oracle stores data. Gone are the usual logical storage components. Data blocks, extents and segments just don't exist in a Postgres database. Actually, segments do exist when a table gets bigger than 1GB but that's a story for a different entry. Postgres stores data as files and directories. Tablespaces are directories and tables (and...Read Full Story

Postgres Plus Cloud Server (Credit: EnterpriseDB ) EnterpriseDB, a provider of enterprise-class products and services based on PostgreSQL, today announced Postgres Plus Cloud Server , which the company has billed as "a full-featured, Oracle-compatible, enterprise-class PostgreSQL database-as-a-service for public and private clouds with support for Amazon EC2, Eucalyptus, Rackspace, and GoGrid." We've seen other database-as-a-service offerings come on the scene from the likes of...Read Full Story

IBM knows how to club competitors. Using Open Source for the betterment of your products is well understood. Using Open Source to grind your competitors face into the dirt is more of an art. Yet when done well it accomplishes the primary objective of competitive marketing - attacking your opponent’s strengths. For technology marketing tyros reading this, understand that attacking your competitors weaknesses is a losing game. Weaknesses are typically marginal worries to consumers. If your...Read Full Story

I’ve been around the block a few times in the FOREX, and I’ve never seen anything like this! Dustin Pass and his team are blowing the roof off their webinars, reaching max. capacity two webinars in a row!.. Probably because there are THREE MAJOR NEWS RELEASES Coming out on Friday morning and everyone wants to take part in the profits if the deviations hit the safe triggers. SO MAKE SURE YOU DOWNLOAD THE FREE VERSION OF ORACLE TRADER that Dustin has generously offered to traders. Here is the...Read Full Story

LewisC's An Expert's Guide To Oracle Technology An ITToolbox user recently asked a question on the EnterpriseDB discussion group , Oracle equilant UTL_I18N.STRING_TO_RAW IN ENTERPRISEDB . Basically, Sreenivas asked which functions in EnterpriseDB could be used to implement dbms_crypto, hex_to_raw, string_to_raw, etc. I believe he is using EnterpriseDB Postgres Plus Advanced Server which is the product that gives Oracle Compatibility. The short answer to his question is that right now, there...Read Full Story

Well, I am no longer working for EnterpriseDB . It was fun while it lasted but it's over so I am moving on. I found a new job, locally. It's pure Oracle and I will get to use Real Application Clusters in a production environment. That's something I haven't done in the past so I am looking forward to it. It's also a java, .net and Oracle Forms shop and they are doing some interesting things with telecommunications and SMS. From now on, I will only need to travel for conferences. No more trips...Read Full Story

Well, I am no longer working for EnterpriseDB . It was fun while it lasted but it's over so I am moving on. I found a new job, locally. It's pure Oracle and I will get to use Real Application Clusters in a production environment. That's something I haven't done in the past so I am looking forward to it. It's also a java, .net and Oracle Forms shop and they are doing some interesting things with telecommunications and SMS. From now on, I will only need to travel for conferences. No more trips...Read Full Story

EnterpriseDB announced the results of the survey they did a few months ago at OSCON. Now, take the results with a grain of salt as it was done by EnterpriseDB. EnterpriseDB is based on Postgres so there is a vested interest in making Postgres sound good. Results can be skewed depending on how the survey is worded, what options are available as answers and who the respondents are. The results summary is available for free . Some key facts: 500 respondents. The download page says "500 corporate...Read Full Story

EnterpriseDB announced the results of the survey they did a few months ago at OSCON. Now, take the results with a grain of salt as it was done by EnterpriseDB. EnterpriseDB is based on Postgres so there is a vested interest in making Postgres sound good. Results can be skewed depending on how the survey is worded, what options are available as answers and who the respondents are. The results summary is available for free . Some key facts: 500 respondents. The download page says "500 corporate...Read Full Story

LewisC's An Expert's Guide To Oracle Technology Looks like I have a new boss. Actually, it looks like my boss's boss has a new boss. ;-) I'd like to personally welcome Ed Boyajian to EnterpriseDB. Looks like he has quite a bit of experience with OSS and monetizing software solutions. He's been an executive at Redhat for a long time. 6 years in his last position but in many other positions before that. We (EnterpriseDB employees) have known this was coming for a while now. I knew Andy and the...Read Full Story