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Any interest in a Central Florida EnterpriseDB User Group?
2008-01-15 17:20:00
I posted this question on my Postgres Blog. Send me a note if you would be interested.LewisCoracle enterprisedb
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Win a copy of my EnterpriseDB book
2008-01-10 00:29:00
I've been thinking long and hard about how I want to give away a few copies of my book. I will be at the SOUG meeting Thursday, Jan 24th here in Tampa. If you're in the area, stop by. I'm going to have a drawing for a couple of copies that night.That doesn't really help those people who aren't near by. So, I am going to ask 3 questions and the first two people to answer all three correctly will get a copy. They won't be hard to answer but the answers might require a little work. I will ask the questions and explain how you will need to respond. To get the questions, you need to follow me on twitter. You can find my twitter account in various places on the net, including in my blog at ITToolbox.com. You will need to be watching at 9am Eastern time, Jan 12, 2008. Follow and be watching for my questions. I will ask the questions and then explain what to do next.This contest is open to anyone. If you are outside the US and you win, we can discuss the best way to get yo...
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My Book Has Been Printed
2008-01-04 02:09:00
Well, it's taken over a year but it has finally arrived. I started writing the book back in Aug 2006. I finished in late Jan 2007 and the technical editor finished his work in March. Now, In Jan 2008, EnterpriseDB: The Definitive Reference is available. I'm glad I didn't wait for the movie. ;-)It's kind of ironic. Just this morning, I posted that I am working on my second book. My wife called me at work and told me two boxes of books had arrived. 2008 is turning out to be a good year. I'll have some additional news in the near future.Anyway, the book looks good. I've already found a few typos and grammar errors just skimming around. I like the font and the pages look really crisp. All in all, I have to say I am very happy that the book is out. Check out some photos:I think I want to give a couple away. Maybe some kind of contest for the blog readers. Any ideas of something fair? I am willing to pay shipping for a couple but that would only be here in the US. O...
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Compatibility Between EntepriseDB and Oracle
2007-12-25 21:13:00
Have you wondered what features are compatible between Oracle and EnterpriseDB? Have you wondered if EnterpriseDB is REALLY compatible with Oracle? EnterpriseDB has compiled a new document called the Oracle Compatibility Developer's Guide. You can download the Oracle Compatibility Developer's Guide for EntepriseDB 8.2 or the Oracle Compatibility Developer's Guide for 8.3 Beta.This new document should help answer one of the most common questions I get asked, i.e., what is compatible and what is not compatible between EnterpriseDB and Oracle. If you are interested in EnterpriseDB but haven't taken the plunge, check out this document. Speaking of compatibility, I plan to start a series of articles that directly compares a feature between Oracle and EntepriseDB (with mentions to pure PostgreSQL).LewisCoracle enterprisedb

EDB*Plus and EDB*Loader Emulate Oracle?s SQL*Plus and SQL*Loader: Enterpri
2007-11-18 18:22:00
EnterpriseDB Advanced Server?s enterprise-class, cross-platform developer and DBA console now includes EDB*Plus, a command-line terminal interface that emulates Oracle ?s SQL*Plus. Like SQL*Plus, EDB*Plus allows users to run SQL and PL/SQL commands interactively. Oracle users accustomed to SQL*Plus will find EDB*Plus immediately familiar. In addition, EnterpriseDB?s new EDB*Loader emulates Oracle?s SQL*Loader and provides even deeper compatibility.EnterpriseDB Advanced Server 8.3 adds several new features that enhance the database?s ability to run, unchanged, applications written for Oracle. For example, there are more than 20 new Oracle-compatible system views, Oracle-compatible packages now support comments, and ROWNUM can now be used in sub-queries and views. In addition, EnterpriseDB?s new bulk binding feature, which allows collections of SQL statements to be collected and run together to improve performance, further improves Oracle compatibility.Other updates to the new software...

Is EnterpriseDB Express Gone?
2007-10-31 03:25:00
I was at the EnterpriseDB web site recently and noticed that the downloads have changed a bit. I no longer see a download for EnterpriseDB Express. If you remember a while back, I had found an annoyance with the installation of the express version.Now you go right to the advance server download and get a messsage. You have downloaded EnterpriseDB Advanced Server. Currently, EnterpriseDB Advanced Server 8.2 requires a Product Key in order to use the software above 1 CPU, 1 GB of memory, and 6GB of data. This product key will be removed from future releases of EnterpriseDB Advanced Server.The message also provides a license key so that you can install the software. Kudos EnterpriseDB. I appreciate it. I'm not opposed to an express version. Actually, I think it makes a lot of sense. But before implementing it, the software should be able to limit itself.It looks like that's what they plan to do.I also noticed a new feature/offering. EnterpriseDB now offers a Developer Suppor...
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Is EnterpriseDB Express Gone?
2007-10-31 03:25:00
I was at the EnterpriseDB web site recently and noticed that the downloads have changed a bit. I no longer see a download for EnterpriseDB Express . If you remember a while back, I had found an annoyance with the installation of the express version.Now you go right to the advance server download and get a messsage. You have downloaded EnterpriseDB Advanced Server. Currently, EnterpriseDB Advanced Server 8.2 requires a Product Key in order to use the software above 1 CPU, 1 GB of memory, and 6GB of data. This product key will be removed from future releases of EnterpriseDB Advanced Server.The message also provides a license key so that you can install the software. Kudos EnterpriseDB. I appreciate it. I'm not opposed to an express version. Actually, I think it makes a lot of sense. But before implementing it, the software should be able to limit itself.It looks like that's what they plan to do.I also noticed a new feature/offering. EnterpriseDB now offers a Developer Suppor...
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EnterpriseDB Wins One From MySQL
2007-10-03 14:57:00
Do you do GEO? If you do, you've probably at least heard of PostGIS, the Postgres GIS extension. PostGIS just gave EnterpriseDB a big win over its open source competition. FortiusOne leads the market towards the next generation of Web mapping. Its breakthrough Intelligent Mapping technologies offer rich information visualization on maps and unprecedented access to geographic data. FortiusOne innovations include: high-speed Web-based geographic analysis tools, a flexible and scalable Web services platform supporting the special needs of geographic data, and an innovative application of social networking techniques to geographic knowledge creation.FortiusOne's main product is GeoCommons. GeoCommons houses a large geospatial database with more than two billion attributes, 35,000 variables, and 1,500 datasets. As a fast-growing startup, FortiusOne required a low-cost, powerful database solution to run GeoCommons. Originally, FortiusOne selected MySQL; however, when FortiusOne was p...
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EnterpriseDB Fall Webinar Series
2007-09-27 01:24:00
Sign up for Live Webinar s from EnterpriseDB. The December Data Warehouse one looks really good.October 4, 2007 9AM ET & 2PM ETTop 5 Ways to Supercharge Your DatabaseAbstract: - Join EnterpriseDB to learn 5 simple ways to supercharge your EnterpriseDB and Postgres databases to gain the best performance. From Dynatune? to auto-vacuuming, there are simple ways to optimize your database without sacrificing availability and reliabilitySpeaker: Jim Mlodgenski - Vice President, Worldwide Technical Services EnterpriseDBOctober 10, 2007 1PM ETLowering TCO While Raising Revenues for Business Intelligence ApplicationsAbstract: - Join EnterpriseDB and JasperSoft to learn how to implement a fully functional BI architecture based on open source technologies that addresses the paradox of lowering your customer?s TCO while improving professional services revenue.Speakers: Jose Morales - Vice President, Business Development, JasperSoft,Bill Doyle - Sr.Vice President, Business Development, Enterpris...
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EnterpriseDB Webinar: Building a Highly Available Infrastructure
2007-09-19 23:06:00
A new Webinar about EnterpriseDB (not from me). Building a Highly Available Infrastructure for Your Database and Application.It's next wednesday, September 26, 2007 at 9am and 2pm Eastern. I guess it repeats. It's an hour long.Here's the blurb from the email I received:What does an hour of downtime cost you? Analysts report that just one hour of downtime can cost businesses millions of dollars, and some never recover.What applications are mission critical today? In the past, only those applications that controlled finances were considered mission-critical. But, today, almost every application, from your e-commerce website to your email and calendaring system, are considered mission-critical and candidates for high-availability planning.While everyone agrees that downtime is caused by three major areas - people, processes and technology - every effort is being made to ensure that technology is never the cause.Join EnterpriseDB and Continuent experts as they show you how to impl...

Bob Zurek's Open Letter to the Wall Street Journal
2007-09-14 01:35:00
News has been slow in the EnterpriseDB world lately. I haven't posted in a while.Bob Zurek is EnterpriseDB's (fairly) new CTO. He is an ex-IBM exec and maintains his blog on the IBM DeveloperWorks blog area. He's been blogging for a long time so I'm not sure how he worked out the move from IBM to EnterpriseDB and kept the same area. Anyway, Bob posted an open letter to the Wall Street Journal about a reporter's take on Open Source . Bob objected to the reporter, Walter K. Mosberg, classifying open source as a two-edge sword.But open source is a two-edge sword. While it draws on smart developers from many places, nobody is ultimately responsible for the quality of the product, and open source developers have an imperfect feel for how average people use software.Bob says:I?d like to respectfully take issue with this statement. As a person active in the tech industry, you know that there has been a strong open source track record in the software industry where many companies, ...
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EnterpriseDB Install Annoyance
2007-09-08 20:17:00
This is just a little peeve of mine. When you install EnterpriseDB, you can choose either a full production license or the free EnterpriseDB Express version. On my laptop, I want to run the express version. I don't need it to use more than 1 gig of ram, more than 1 cpu or more than 6gb of disk. But I can't even install it because my hardware exceeds those specs.Oracle Express Edition has the same limitations as EnterpriseDB Express (and so does Microsoft SQL Server Express), but Oracle (and MS) limit their hardware usage by building the limits into the software. You can install the software on hardware as big as you have and the software will limit itself while it is running.The EnterpriseDB installer won't even let you install. That also has me wondering about using EnterpriseDB. Oracle allows a developer to download, install and use the full blown enterprise edition of Oracle without any kind of key or license beyond the developer license. It looks like developers can o...
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EnterpriseDB and Vars
2007-09-03 03:43:00
A neat article in the September 2007 issue of VARBusiness. The article is titled: EnterpriseDB Offers Options To Oracle Lock-In. Not a lot of new info here but there were several good points.The mention the EnterpriseDB ROI calculator, EnterpriseDB provides a calculator on its Web site where prospective customers can compare Oracle licensing costs to EnterpriseDB subscription fees. I blogged about this a while back, EnterpriseDB - Measure ROI versus Oracle.They also talk about how most of EnterpriseDB sales are direct but EnterpriseDB expects,that partners could account for as much as 30 percent to 40 percent of EnterpriseDB's sales by the end of next year. "A major part of our revenue pull will be OEMs and companies that sell Enterprise DB with their apps," he says.I can see that. Many companies should be looking for lower price selections from their partners. In turn that should lower database costs for everyone.On this I didn't know is that Compiere is certified for Enterp...
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EnterpriseDB Webinar Recording - From Oracle to EnterpriseDB: An Oracle ACE
2007-08-29 04:16:00
Well, the webinar has been done. The recording has been posted to something called Jumpcut. This is video and audio. Check it out and give me feedback.If that doesn't play for you, you can watch it on Jumpcut, From Oracle to EnterpriseDB: An Oracle ACE's Journey.Thanks,LewisCoracle enterprisedb webinar migration video audio
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Bruce Momjian Interview in InformationWeek
2007-08-25 23:29:00
InformationWeek has a good interview with Bruce : Open Source PostgreSQL Developer Bruce Momjian Spills The DB Beans.In the interview, Bruce talks about how he spends one day a week at the EnterpriseDB site but most of his time working on Postgres. There aren't a lot of quotes in the interview. I wonder if a longer interview is coming.There are a few anti-comparisons between "bearded sage" Momjian and JBoss' Marc Fleury and, of course, the obligatory comparison to MySQL.PostgreSQL sought to match major relational database systems and afterward addressed performance. "We didn't focus on performance until the end. MySQL had that right at the start," he acknowledges.It's a short read but worth the time. LewisCoracle enterprisedb
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EnterpriseDB Webinar
2007-08-22 23:01:00
I did the EnterpriseDB Migration webinar today. The webinar was recorded and will be posted on the EnterpriseDB web site. I'll update this post with a link as soon as it is.I think it went well. Derek had a family emergency and was not able to participate but his stand-in Matthew Bennett knew his stuff. He did the intro and then the follow up. We both answered questions. There were some really good questions. I will try to cover some those here, in the future. For now, you can view the powerpoint presentation. I really like the plug. That's kind of a cool image.Take care,LewisCoracle enterprisedb migration webinar
More About: Oracle , Webinar

EnterpriseDB Compatibilty features
2007-08-20 01:12:00
A question that I am asked very often it exactly what features are compatible between EnterpriseDB and Oracle . The short story is that the areas that you think of as "development", i.e. SQL, Code, etc are the areas where the compatibility exists.Maintenance tasks are generally familiar as is the overall architecture. Any modern database will have logging, recovery, backups, etc. In EnterpriseDB, the way you code an application will be compatible with Oracle and the maintenance of an EnterpriseDB database will be familiar.EnterpriseDB has published a white paper called, Delivering Oracle Compatibility . This paper outlines the exact points of compatibility very succinctly. I hope they keep it updated for each release.This bulleted list from the white paper outlines it pretty well:Oracle SQL Compatibility. EnterpriseDB Advanced Server executes Oracle-specific SQL syntax.PL/SQL Compatibility. EnterpriseDB Advanced Server executes PL/SQL, Oracle?s unique language for triggers, store...
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EnterpriseDB Webinar - From Oracle to EnterpriseDB: An Oracle ACE's Journey
2007-08-16 23:57:00
I will be doing a webinar next week, Aug 22 at 1PM Eastern. If you can't make it in real-time, the webinar will be recorded and will be available for viewing afterwards on the EnterpriseDB.com web site.The webinar was announced in the EnterpriseDB press release for my book, EnterpriseDB Announces Availability of Definitive Reference Book . From the press release: Lewis Cunningham will describe his progression from EnterpriseDB skeptic to advocate in a live Webinar , From Oracle to EnterpriseDB: An Oracle ACE's Journey , on Wednesday, Aug. 22 at 1:00 p.m. EDT. The Webinar will also feature a step-by-step migration of an Oracle application to EnterpriseDB Advanced Server. To register for the Webinar, please visit www.enterprisedb.com/bookwebcast.I'm really looking forward to doing this webinar. I did the ODTUG Desktop Conference in 2005. I did a security presentation and an Oracle XE presentation. Those were kind of the same. I will be talking and doing a PPT. Q&A will foll...

EnterpriseDB Wins Best Database Award at LinuxWorld
2007-08-14 01:35:00
EnterpriseDB, the Oracle -compatible database company, today announced that EnterpriseDB Advanced Server has won the LinuxWorld Product Excellence Award for Best Database Solution. EnterpriseDB Advanced Server beat both Oracle 11g and Jaspersoft Business Intelligence Suite to take the top honor."EnterpriseDB uniquely enables enterprises to run applications written for Oracle databases for a tiny fraction of Oracle's cost," said Andy Astor, chief executive officer, EnterpriseDB. "We were thrilled in 2005 to have taken the LinuxWorld Product Excellence Award for our industry-changing product and again in 2006 for our continued innovation. This year's award for Best Database Solution, especially in light of the hype surrounding Oracle 11g, is a gratifying endorsement of our product and strategy."I thought Oracle XE won this award last year? Has EnterpriseDB won it 3 years in a row?LewisCoracle enterprisedboracle enterprisedb
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EnterpriseDB - Measure ROI versus Oracle
2007-08-10 22:49:00
EnterpriseDB has introduced a new feature called the ROI Calculator. The calculator allows you to enter an Oracle configuration and compare the cost to an equivalent EnterpriseDB cost. You can even add extras like the partitioning option, OLAP, Data Mining and Spatial. A nice addition is the ability to enter a discount for Oracle. Most organizations get at least a partial discount on their purchases. The ROI also includes a 5 year support cost which somewhat skews the results (but in a direction you will likely go anyway).I played with several configurations to see how they compared. I started with a fairly common configuration, 4 CPU Enterprise Edition with Partitioning. I included a 20% discount for Oracle.Even though I know that EnterpriseDB is a lot cheaper to license, I was somewhat surprised at the difference in this configuration: $428,800 for Oracle vs 100,000 for a difference of $328,800. Remember this is over 5 years.I entered the values for a little bit more rob...
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RAC on Open Source: EntepriseDB GridSQL
2007-08-07 18:58:00
This is just too cool. Today, EnterpriseDB announced at LinuxWorld that they are offering GridSQL, a data warehouse and OLAP clustering solution. According to the doc, the EnterpriseDB page for GridSQL, the tool offers:Quickly and easily create, maintain, and access very large databases for Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing applicationsOffload reporting from expensive hardware platforms onto an inexpensive grid of commodity hardware, creating significant savingsRun reporting and other applications with very large datasets, improving organizational decision-makingImprove organizational productivity and agility by enabling quick access to large amounts of informationThis is supposed to be a true, shared nothing approach to clustering. I, obviously, haven't had the chance to play with it yet but I will.This is a scale out package for large databases. So I am guessing that you would be able to partition data across multiple machines but that is a total guess on my part. I...
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