Pat Wright
Data Junkie and President of Utah Geek Events at Utah Geek Events
Pat Wright has been a DBA for the past 15+ years and working in the Big Data space with Hadoop/Elastic search for the past 3 years. Pat has been working on Postgres for the last 2 years and runs the local postgres users group. Pat has been a SQL Server MVP, PASS Board of director and organizer of several users groups.
Pat has a night job running Utah Geek Events(501c(3)). Which helps to run events for the community. Utah Geek Events partners with Utah SQL Saturday, Sharepoint Saturday, Utah game jam and many other conferences and user groups.
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Past presentations
Logical Replication was released in Postgres version 10. We have been using it for a Data Warehouse system for the last year and this talk will show you how to set it up for a Data Warehouse system and some of the pitfalls you will run into. We will have the opportunity to discuss what replication you should be using depending on the work you are doing. Perhaps Logical Replication is not the be...
Logical Replication lessons learned for the Data Warehouse
Learn what does work for logical replication and what does not work for logical replication.
Logical Replication was released in Postgres version 10. We have been using it for a Data Warehouse system for the last year and this talk will show you how to set it up for a Data Warehouse system and some of the pitfalls you will run into. We will have the opportunity to discuss what replication you should be using depending on the work you are doing. Perhaps Logical Replication is not the...
Speaking and Community Involvement for the Introvert
Learn what is needed to succeed as an introvert in the community.
Let’s be serious, I understand 99% of the audience for a technical conference are introverted. I’m not here to disagree with that I’m here to talk about the introvert inside of me and how I quiet it just enough to truly improve my life. We will discuss why the idea of speaking and community involvement are important to you. If you think all you need is technical skills in this market then ...
Postgres for the SQL Server DBA
Learn more about how to work with Postgres from a SQL Server Dba point of view.
Postgres is an amazing product and many people are quickly adopting it. This also means that many DBA’s are coming from different technical disciplines. Sometimes from Oracle, SQL Server or Mysql. Learning the tools and the differences between the systems can be daunting for some. I’ll go through the differences in the tools, administration and some of the internals between SQL Server and p...