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Ora2Pg is free. But Cortex is cheaper. How?
The Atos Database Modernization program aims to convert legacy databases to open source or cloud databases at the highest level of automation for the lowest cost. And so to help our customer make the best decision for their business, in terms of the best product to...
Database migration is now even easier with Cortex 2.0
Cortex 2.0 is here. Smarter, faster, easier to use. When we first released Cortex two years ago, we focused on bringing together all the functionality we’d developed over many years to make the migration of Oracle databases to PostgreSQL (community version) as...
The latest releases of PostgresPURE are live
PostgresPURE, 100% open source, combines PostgreSQL with a powerful set of software components to launch and manage your PostgreSQL database environments. And now, it’s even more useful and effective with a new release. PostgreSQL is always evolving and pushing its...
Why PostgreSQL is my favourite database
I’ve been working with database systems for over 20 years, including Oracle, Sybase and MySQL – but for me, PostgreSQL is the best of them all. So what makes PostgreSQL such a great database system? In all honesty, having used it for over a decade, I could fill many pages with my answer. But …
PostgreSQL Expert Insight Series – Blog 4 of 4: Moving data around
So here we are at the last of my series of four blogs. If you’ve picked up the other three: Blog 1 of 4: Aggregation, Blog 2 of 4: Checking text within a larger string and Blog 3 of 4: Primary key considerations, thanks for reading! And watch this space, I’m preparing...
PostgreSQL Expert Insight Series – Blog 3 of 4: Primary key considerations
Hello and welcome to the third of my blogs. If you’ve picked up the first one: Blog 1 of 4: Aggregation and the second one: Blog 2 of 4: Checking text within a larger string, thanks for reading! So as I said before, I’ve always admired the desire of the PostgreSQL...
PostgreSQL Expert Insight Series – Blog 2 of 4: Checking text within a larger string
Hello and welcome to the second of my blogs. If you’ve picked up the first one: Blog 1 of 4: Aggregation, thanks for reading! So as I said before, I’ve always admired the desire of the PostgreSQL community to share knowledge and expertise. Following in that tradition...
PostgreSQL Expert Insight Series – Blog 1 of 4: Aggregation
Hello from me I’ve always admired the desire of the PostgreSQL community to share knowledge and expertise. Following in that tradition I’d like to share a few pearls of PostgreSQL wisdom that I’ve picked up over the years as a PostgreSQL developer. But before I start...
How to ensure Oracle® database migrations don’t fail
Nowadays many organisations want to migrate to the cloud to become flexible, scalable and to save costs. However, as many of them use Oracle, they are facing issues with their database management and the restrictive license terms that Oracle has put in place. A core reason is …
Why we created an alternative to Oracle
Apple started in a garage, as did Amazon. And just like them, our journey focussing on an alternative to Oracle began quite humbly on the living room table. At the time, open source was…