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Title: PostgreSQL Database for Oracle DBAs
Presenter: Shailesh Rangani
Organization: Datavail
 
Summary: Oracle Database is a multi-model DBMS owned by Oracle Corporation. It is mainly used for running online transaction processing (OLTP), data warehousing (OLAP), and mixed database workloads. It has market-leading database technologies.

PostgreSQL commonly known as Postgres is an open-source database. It has over 30 years of active development along with a strong reputation for reliability, feature robustness, and performance. PostgreSQL has various forks like EDB, Redshift, AWS Aurora, Netezza, etc.

Thousands of databases are getting migrated to PostgreSQL from Oracle in recent days. While the number of PostgreSQL deployments and databases is increasing significantly, it is also attracting existing Oracle DBAs to learn PostgreSQL as their primary or secondary skills.

This session will cover the following PostgreSQL features and compare them with Oracle.
- General Features
- Architecture
- Basic DBA Tasks
- Programming Features
- High Availability options
- Observability
- Concurrency control differences
 
Topic:
Database/DBaaS Administration
Track Sponsor: RMOUG Alumni
Session Type: One Hour Session
Target Audience: Database Administration
Experience Level: Novice
Session: Session 8: 02/17/2023 9:40 am to 10:40 am
Location: Virtual Room 3
 
Biographical Sketch: Shailesh Rangani is Global Practice Lead of PostgreSQL at Datavail. He leads a team of PostgreSQL DBAs in the United States and India working with customers around the globe and supporting their PostgreSQL environments. Shailesh has 18 years of experience with database administration. His expertise lies in designing, deploying, administering, and managing data-intensive applications that enable organizations to effectively analyze and process large volumes of structured and unstructured data. Shailesh specializes in AWS, NoSQL, RDBMS, and Cloud platforms.
Accomplishments: 18 years of experience on databases like DB2 LUW, Oracle, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and SQL Server.
Migrations from Oracle/DB2/SQL server to PostgreSQL
Migration/Modernization to AWS/Azure
Speaker and Blogger
Certified on AWS (Pro*), Azure, OCI, MongoDB, Oracle, DB2 LUW, etc..
 
 


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