About
Dr. Aaron N. Cutshall is a proven leader in Healthcare Informatics with nearly 40 years of experience in application and database analysis, design, and development. He focuses on clinical quality and massive databases. He actively speaks nationwide at conferences and user group sessions on data architecture, analytics, and professional development topics.
Aaron Cutshall has presented the following presentations
Defining What’s Normal — The Basics of Database Normalization
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2025 Postgres World Webinar Series
presented by Aaron Cutshall
Determining how to efficient design database structures for a given application has always relied on the same old answer: “It depends!” So, how do you determine what level of normalization your data requires? This session will review the principles of data normalization, show the impact that normalization can have on performance and data integrity, and just as importantly, show you when it’s OK...
more Tue 25 2025 Fundamentals
SQL Team Six: How to Build Effective Teams
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2025 Postgres World Webinar Series
presented by Aaron Cutshall
Teamwork is important in all areas, including development, QA or other teams that we interact with daily. Lessons learned from highly effective teams show that there are six major impacts to team effectiveness: chain of command, team cohesion, standard operating procedures, training, mission objectives and after action analysis. A failure in any of these areas can impact team effectiveness. In ...
more Tue 3 2025 Life & Leadership
How to Give a Technical Presentation
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2025 Postgres World Webinar Series
presented by Aaron Cutshall
Most people don’t like to speak in public and technical folks are certainly no exception. Yet, you’ve got some ideas for a great presentation but just don’t know how to go about putting it all together. On top of that, how do you go about giving the presentation itself? This session will cover how to pull your material together in an organized fashion and present it such that your audience (bot...
more Tue 29 2025 Life & Leadership
How to Give a Technical Presentation
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Postgres Conference 2025
presented by Aaron Cutshall
Most people don’t like speaking in public, and technical folks are no exception. Yet, you’ve got some ideas for a great presentation but don’t know how to put it all together. On top of that, how do you give the presentation itself? This session will cover how to pull your material together in an organized fashion and present it such that your audience can follow along and get the message you w...
more Wed 19 2025 Professional Development
A Practical Guide to Set-Based Queries
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Postgres Conference 2025
presented by Aaron Cutshall
Database queries, stored procedures, and poorly written functions are the main contributors to performance degradation in Postgres because it is optimized for set-based processing over procedural processing. The sad reality is that too much code is written from a procedural point of view because many database developers started as procedural programmers. Also, many applications use Postgres as ...
more Tue 18 2025 Dev
SQL Team Six: How to Build Effective Teams
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Seattle 2024
The essentials of leadership and effective teams
presented by Aaron Cutshall
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Effective leadership and efficient teams are critical to success, where today's business requirements put people with diverse backgrounds, skills, and experiences together in teams under tight schedules with intense pressure. Therefore, teamwork is essential in all areas of our work life, including how we interact with other teams daily. Lessons learned from highly effective teams, such as SEAL...
more Thu 7 2024 Essentials