I will write more on one of the subsequent days, but I really want to share my news, which one of my former co-workers called “the next most important news of the day after inauguration.”
Last week, our book became official, we are on Amazon, and we will be published at the end of April.
I made an official announcement a today’s meetup of Chicago PostgreSQL User Group. Also, we officially announced the open source database postgres_air, which we developed to illustrate the concepts from the book. But it ended up to be more than that, and we decided to give it to the community as our contribution.
I am happy in all possible ways 🙂
Here is the recording, if somebody wants to hear a lot of me :). Tomorrow, there will be LinkedIn blog posts, and I will upload the video there as well, but not everybody follows me on LinkedIn 🙂
My name is Henrietta (Hettie) Dombrovskaya. I was born in Saint-Petersburg, Russian (actually, back then – Leningrad, USSR) in 1963, and immigrated to the United States in 1996.
I love Saint Petersburg, the city I was born and raised in, and I think it’s one of the most beautiful places in the world. Similarly (but differently) I love Chicago, and can’t imagine myself moving somewhere else in the observable future.
I have three children, Igor, Vlad and Anna, all adults living on their own, and one (so far) granddaughter Nadia. I also believe that my children are the best thing that happened in my life.
As for my professional life, I am working in the field of Information Technologies. When I was twenty, I’ve declared that the databases are the coolest thing invented and that I want to do them for the rest of my life. Thirty plus years later, I still believe it’s true, and still, believe that the databases are the best. These two statements together imply that I think a person can have it all, and indeed, I think so! Keep reading my journals to find out how I did it.
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That could very well be. My main point of contact with it was that lame implementation of it that was tacked on to the early editions of dBase IV. It was traumatic…
Hello, congratulations on the publication, I have a question in the book dealing with topics such as the creation of statistics, JIT, among others that affect the execution plan?
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Never did like SQL but congratulations anyway!
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Thank you! I do not think it’s like you didn’t like SQL, it that you never knew it well enough to like 🙂 🙂
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That could very well be. My main point of contact with it was that lame implementation of it that was tacked on to the early editions of dBase IV. It was traumatic…
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Oh, for sure!
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Wow, this is indeed great news! Congratulations!
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Thank you!!!
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Hello, congratulations on the publication, I have a question in the book dealing with topics such as the creation of statistics, JIT, among others that affect the execution plan?
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