Tag: postgres
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Why I love Debian (and PostgreSQL)
I woke up this morning, got online through my new UMTS/HSPDA modem, and discovered that one of my servers had a load average of 239+ Not the best way to start the day. Turns out an rsync backup job between two servers had gone nuts and was spinning them up through the roof. A couple…
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Top Ten Tools
I was surfing around today, and saw this article about the top ten tools you use. As far as getting work done on the computer (I’m taking the computer for granted and not counting it as a tool, although for it all to come together it’s worth noting I use an Apple MacBookPro with 4GB…
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Why Oracle makes me nuts
When left to my own devices I tend to use PostgreSQL or MySQL. They’re both free, open source, run on every platform I use, and I understand how to use them, tune them, etc…. However, when I’m building an application and database scripts that will be deployed on Oracle, and using an application which doesn’t…