Re: Oracle to Postgres training at PGConf US
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2017 17:36:29 -0600
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You can't judge a conference unless you have experienced it, so your opinion that "it is not a decent conference" has no substance and thus is irrelevant.
Comparing advanced features between an open-source project and its commercial competitors makes as much sense as comparing licensing costs. It all depends on your requirements.
On 7/21/17 17:08, Mladen Gogala wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Jul 2017 13:23:05 -0700
> "Matthew Parker" <dimensional.dba_at_comcast.net> wrote:
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>> ...and as to the original posting this is a decent conference to attend and learn from.
> It is not a decent conference. Unfortunately, PostgreSQL is largely irrelevant. There is nothing new and exciting about PostgreSQL. In now has parallel query, which has been available with Oracle since the early 90's, with DB2 since mid-90's and with SQL Server since SQL Server 2005. And that's the great news.
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> The other open source databases are much more promising. PostgreSQL is very much behind things like MariaDB technologically. Attending this conference is probably a waste of time. Going through the following would probably be a far better use of your time:
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> http://saphanatutorial.com/sap-hana-training-basic-tutorial/
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