Data Conversion

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

LewisC's An Expert's Guide To Oracle Technology An ITToolbox user recently asked a question on the EnterpriseDB discussion group, Oracle

LewisC's An Expert's Guide To Oracle Technology The latest release of the EnterpriseDB database, Postgres Plus Advanced Server (AS) 8.3, includes additional Oracle compatibility features. Two of those new features are DBMS_PIPE and DBMS_ALERT. Old Oracle hands will recognize those two packages that are used for interprocess communication.

LewisC's An Expert's Guide To Oracle Technology Wavemaker is an Open Source GUI builder that is based on Spring, Hibernate and the Dojo toolkit. The company that produces the software, Wavemaker Software, is a new partner with EnterpriseDB. With that in mind, I decided

The publisher of my book, EnterpriseDB: The Definitive Reference, recently made the book available on the web in PDF format. You can also download it

LewisC's An Expert's Guide To Oracle Technology This tip relates to the latest version of EnterpriseDB's Advanced Server (AS) product. This is the commercially licensed database that provides Oracle compatibility. I have spoken quite a bit

LewisC's An Expert's Guide To Oracle Technology Back in October 2006, I wrote an entry named EDB Tip #1: What is EnterpriseDB? I am going to be posting some more EDB tips so I thought I would update that entry with some

EnterpriseDB is on fire with a cloud computing beta test, two new Postgre product bundles and $10 million of new investment including IBM as a new investor.

Big news in the tech arena today. EnterpriseDB has just posted about the closing of its series C financing with news that IBM has invested in the company. This is big. IBM doesn't usually invest in software companies. With Sun buying MySQL, it definitely makes sense. I don't think Sun will abandon Postgres

LewisC's An Expert's Guide To Oracle Technology Have you ever migrated a database? From an old version to a new one or from one vendor to another? Was it painful? I've done plenty of migrations for various reasons and various applications. Some were very successful and some not so much. One of the most painful I have ever done was a "simple"