About

Dave is the VP of Engineering for OpenSCG and the BigSQL projects. He has over 20 years experience leading large scale technology and data analytics projects. Previously he was CTO for cloud Master Data Management provider MDX, Alliance Global Services and Fusion Technologies.


    David Rader Columns and Clouds - Hybrid databases
    Faster queries, smaller data, and elastic archive for large databases using FDWs

    presented by David Rader


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    Dealing with a large database? Want your queries to run faster? How about saving space in large tables? What if you don't want to delete old history records - can you keep them in the cloud?

    In this talk about using advanced Postgres features to create hybrid databases we'll show how to use partitioning and Foreign Data Wrappers (FDW) to speed up queries, make your database smaller and stret...

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    David Rader Migrating to PostgreSQL: Lessons Learned

    presented by David Rader


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    Discussion of some of the key challenges people experience as they migrate their databases from a commercial solutions like Oracle, Sybase or SQL Server to PostgreSQL.

    David Rader Scott Mead Jan Wieck Denis Lussier OpenSCG Workshop: Hands on Oracle to PostgreSQL Migration

    presented by David Rader, Scott Mead, Jan Wieck, and Denis Lussier

    Join the OpenSCG team for a hands on look on how to migrate an application from Oracle to PostgreSQL.

    David Rader Avoid Being Trampled By Elephants

    presented by David Rader

    You convinced your boss, management, and executive team to switch to PostgreSQL - now what? Learn the keys to avoid being trampled by angry customers, developers and your boss.

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