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Payal has extensive experience working on all aspects of open source databases, primarily Postgres and MySQL. She is a data science enthusiast, and generally loves all things having to do with data.


Payal Singh has presented the following presentations

    Payal Singh Essential Postgres Performance tuning at Postgres Conference
    A look at most important postgres and OS parameters to improve performance

    presented by Payal Singh

    Looking at the list of kernel and postgresql.conf parameters, tuning your PostgreSQL database may seem like a daunting task. While each parameter has a role to play, in most scenarios just a handful of these end up impacting performance the most. This talk aims to be a quick practical guide to tuning your PostgreSQL cluster to get the best possible performance with the least effort, with specia...

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    Thu 21 2019 Ops and Administration
    Payal Singh Securing Your Data on Postgres at PGConf Local: Philly 2017 [PgConf.US]

    presented by Payal Singh

    This talk will cover the various features that Postgres provides for data security, from the very basic to the most advanced.

    While most applications are aware of the minimum basic security features and use them, there is often a lack of understanding about how best to manage them, especially with major security features being released with every major version of Postgres. As for advanced f...

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    PostgreSQL
    Payal Singh Think Your Postgres Backups And Disaster Recovery Are Safe? Let's talk. at PGConf US 2015 [PgConf.US]

    presented by Payal Singh

    Disaster recovery is perhaps the most ignored aspect of managing PostgreSQL in production systems, and its value is only realized in a moment of crisis. If not done right, absence of backup and recovery strategies can make one repent for days, if not months after. Even when catered to, majority of production systems only have at most one defined backup and recovery strategy, not realizing the b...

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    Admin
    Payal Singh Securing Your Data on PostgreSQL at PostgresConf US 2018
    Protecting your data at the Database Tier

    presented by Payal Singh

    This talk will cover the various features that Postgres provides for data security, from the very basic to the most advanced.

    While most applications are aware of the minimum basic security features and use them, there is often a lack of understanding about how best to manage them, especially with major security features being released with every major version of Postgres. As for advanced fe...

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    Operations and Administration