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21/08/2026

PostgreSQL Essentials for DBAs starts on Monday. A few spots are still available.

Five live sessions with practising PostgreSQL experts.
Walk away knowing how to run, monitor, and diagnose PostgreSQL in production. Certificate included.

Register before the weekend: https://dataegret.com/courses-postgresql-essentials-dba1/

17/08/2026

One week until PostgreSQL Essentials for DBAs begins.

If your PostgreSQL knowledge has gaps, this course fills them. Installation, configuration, day-to-day operations, monitoring, diagnostics — five live sessions taught by practising PostgreSQL experts, with Q&A built into every session.

Spots are limited. Course starts 24 August.

Register: https://dataegret.com/courses-postgresql-essentials-dba1/

10/08/2026

PostgreSQL Essentials for DBAs starts on 24 August. Two weeks from now.

After this five-day course (3.5 hours each) you will know how to install and configure PostgreSQL for production, manage day-to-day operations with confidence, monitor performance, and diagnose issues before they escalate.

Taught by practising PostgreSQL consultants, active DBA and recognised contributors to the PostgreSQL project. Live Q&A in every session. Certificate included.

Spots are limited.

Register: https://dataegret.com/courses-postgresql-essentials-dba1/

07/07/2026

There's a special kind of engineering joy in adding Commodore 64 to Postgres.

Our colleague Thom Brown, in his latest post, walks through PL/CBMBASIC: a procedural language extension that runs the actual 1982 Commodore BASIC interpreter inside your database. You need to use line numbers like you did on the C64, you send SQL queries through devices, and you can even use native C64 types, all both of them.👾💾🎮

𝟹𝟾𝟿𝟷𝟷 𝙱𝙰𝚂𝙸𝙲 𝙱𝚈𝚃𝙴𝚂 𝙵𝚁𝙴𝙴, but for your production database:

If you are of a certain age, the words 38911 BASIC BYTES FREE will bring memories flooding back. You remember the blue screen that you had ...

23/06/2026

This week, three PostgreSQL user group meetings are taking place across Europe, and Data Egret is proud to have a presence at all of them.

Today, 23 June:
🇫🇷 Meetup PostgreSQL Lille — Stefan Fercot is presenting on the integration of pgBackRest with Patroni, a topic close to every DBA's heart.

🇬🇧 London PostgreSQL Meetup — Valeria Kaplan is joining Alastair Turner from Percona to share highlights and takeaways from the recent PGConf.dev 🐘 conference.

Tomorrow, 24 June:
🇩🇪 Postgres User Group Frankfurt (am Main) — Ilya Kosmodemiansky is presenting an update on the Open Alliance for PostgreSQL Education, together with Diego Calvo de Nó from Proventa GmbH.

From backup and high availability to conference insights and community education, three meetups, three cities, three very different topics. This reflects exactly what we at Data Egret are about: deep expertise across the full PostgreSQL ecosystem, so that clients who work with us get well-rounded, end-to-end support, whatever their challenge.

Are you attending any of these? We'd love to connect! 👋

01/05/2026

A week on from PGConf.DE 2026 in Essen, we now have our slides and thoughts together! 🐘

This year, four of our colleagues took to the stage covering topics across high availability and backup strategies, safe schema migrations, the business case for open-source contribution, and real-time analytics pipelines.

📖 Read our full recap including slides from all four talks here:
https://dataegret.com/2026/05/recap-pgconf-de-2026/

Inspired, energised—and with a slight post-event dip—our team just got back from PGConf.DE 2026 in Essen! The 10th Annual PostgreSQL Conference Germany took place on April 21–22,...

29/04/2026

If you’re in Munich next week, come join us at the PostgreSQL Meetup! 🍻

Our CEO, Ilya Kosmodemiansky, will be speaking about “Operating Postgres as a data source for your analytics pipelines” — a topic that’s becoming increasingly important as more teams rely on real-time analytics.

You’ll hear practical insights on:

* change data capture (CDC)
* running Postgres under analytical load
* tools like Debezium, Kafka, Flink, and more

Plus, there are two more great talks:
🔹 The Role of PostgreSQL in the AI World — Sikandra Chaudhary (AWS)
🔹 Sneak Preview: New Features in PostgreSQL 19 — Michael Banck (Credativ)

📅 Tuesday, 5 May | 5:30 PM – 8:30 PM
📍 Munich

👉 Join here: https://www.meetup.com/postgresql-meetup-munich/events/314378267/?eventOrigin=group_upcoming_events

Can’t make it but interested in the topic? Check out our white paper on PostgreSQL and analytics pipelines:
https://dataegret.com/white-paper/

We are excited to announce our first 2026 PostgreSQL Meetup! AWS (Amazon Web Services) has graciously offered to host us again on May 5th, starting 18:00. Complete speaker

21/04/2026

🎤 Happening now in Saal B!
Daria Nikolaenko is presenting:
“PostgreSQL Migrations Without Drama”

Schema and data changes are part of everyday development, but in PostgreSQL, they can quickly impact performance and availability if not handled carefully.

In this session, Daria walks through:

- how schema changes affect live workloads,
- why certain operations cause blocking,
- how to reduce risk when applying DDL and DML in production,
- and what to watch out for with large data modifications.

If you’re at PGConf.DE, don’t miss out!

14/04/2026

One of the things we believe in at DataEgret: the knowledge our DBAs carry shouldn't stay internal.

Thom Brown — one of our senior PostgreSQL engineers — has published a deep dive into using psql. These tricks actually change how you work: `\gexec`, `\gset`, `\watch`, `\crosstabview`, `\errverbose`, and a `.psqlrc` that turns the CLI into a personal toolkit.

👉 Full post: https://dataegret.com/2026/04/psql-tricks/

Thom also authored our free PostgreSQL Maintenance Health Check Guide, which covers the operational side of keeping Postgres healthy in production:
🔗 https://dataegret.com/white-paper-postgresql-maintenance/

Boost your PostgreSQL workflow with practical psql tips: expanded output, saved queries, live dashboards, and powerful command-line tricks.

09/04/2026

The demand for PostgreSQL expertise has never been higher - and certified, experienced PostgreSQL DBAs are still genuinely hard to find.
If you are looking to upskill, change roles, or simply stay ahead of the curve in 2026, we have new dates across all three of our PostgreSQL training courses:

🎓 DBA1 - PostgreSQL Essentials
🎓 DBA2 - PostgreSQL Advanced
🎓 DBA3 - PostgreSQL Backups and Replication

Why train with Data Egret?
✅ Taught by senior DBAs who work with production PostgreSQL every day
✅ Live, interactive sessions with real demos and Q&A
✅ Certificate from a recognised PostgreSQL consultancy
✅ Small cohorts - real attention, real conversations

5 live online sessions per course · 3h30m each · €850 before taxes

👉 Register here: https://dataegret.com/postgresql-courses/