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Rick comes from a background in Sybase and Microsoft SQL Server, where he is known as a performance tuning expert. After recently starting to work with PostgreSQL, he is currently working to highlight speed bumps that other folks from a MSSQL background may run into when ramping up on pg.


Rick Lowe has presented the following presentations

    Rick Lowe Moving from MSSQL to pgSQL - High Availability and Disaster Recovery at Postgres Conference 2025
    Speedbumps when moving between platforms

    presented by Rick Lowe

    Recently there has been an almost exponential uptick in the number of MSSQL DBA's who are starting to operate in the Postgres world. One area of friction can be high availability and disaster recovery approaches, if for no other reason the fact that these tend to be extremely edition ($$$) dependent on the SQL Server side. Please join us for a brief review of current Postgres high availability ...

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