Thought I would share a few links that I read this morning. I don’t do a lot of link posts but these three came off my RSS, one after the other, and all three are worth sharing.

The first is Will Oracle kill MySQL? Come on people! I can’t believe people are still stuck on this FUD. Ronald gives some good reasons why that is not likely. The only thing this kind of FUD… Read the rest!

Postgres 8.4 is just around the corner. I haven’t had much time lately to keep up with Postgres. I’ve had too much to do in the Oracle world (new job, writing, etc). However, I do try to keep up with a few email groups just to keep touch with what’s coming. Here are three things in Postgres 8.4 that I think will be interesting to a lot of people. Two of… Read the rest!

I’d like to see the survey again and compare the results to the survey itself.

I discovered that, as of right now, the survey is still online.

Still no information as to when, or if, the entire survey results will be released. That’s what I am most interested in.

LewisC

Technorati : database, enterprisedb, open source, postgres

It will be nice to have an additional resource for Postgres developers and DBAs. This is just a sign that Postgres is becoming more mainstream. In… Read the rest!

For example, assuming that I have this table (which is empty) in both Oracle and Postgres:… Read the rest!

That’s such a good idea! I don’t know why we don’t see more LiveCDs. Even commercial software should be taking advantage of such an easy marketing opportunity.

The entry says:

Well, what can I say? The CD is simply Xubuntu with PostgreSQL loaded up and ready to run. And once loaded, you can actually play with PostgreSQL at least three different ways. The Xubuntu CD

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One of the things that attracted me to Postgres was the ability to choose one of many languages to program in. I usually choose PL/pgSQL but if I can’t do something with that, it’s nice to be able to fall back to TCL, Perl… Read the rest!

I… Read the rest!

Oracle Express Edition has… Read the rest!

Obviously, it’s easy when you are calling it from another stored procedure or function.  What most mean, is how do I call it from the command line?  That’s easy too.

Using my function and procedure from earlier posts, i.e. 10 Steps to Creating a Function In PostgreSQL Using PLpgSQL… Read the rest!

Today, I am going to show you how to create a procedure.  You don’t really create a procedure, you use the same basic syntax as you do for a function.  The RETURNS keyword can get a little tricky as that keyword requirement changes based on what you are trying to do.  To start, I will create a procedure… Read the rest!

Some people have very strong opinions about it. Personally, I don’t see what the big deal is. The only people who really have an issue are the people in that (hacker) community. CEOs don’t care what it’s called. No developer I know cares what… Read the rest!

I’ll go ahead and show you the code for a very basic function and then I’ll explain the steps individually.

CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION func_1()
  RETURNS CHAR VARYING(25)
AS $$
DECLARE
  local_char_var CHAR(30);
BEGIN
  SELECT datname
    INTO local_char_var
    FROM pg_database

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Won’t be long now. I probably won’t have time to play with it while it’s in beta but I am looking forward to it. Tsearch2 will be nice and compares to Oracle… Read the rest!