[olug] Fwd: FW: Start the new year early - begin your Postgres certification now!

Thu Dec 16 08:49:10 UTC 2010

I don't know about y'all but I found this section illuminating:

"This webcast will provide you with the business and technical reasons
why making a move to Postgres from MySQL makes good sense now. It will
demonstrate a step-by-step method for converting existing databases to
Postgres from Microsoft MySQL Server, and also provide recommendations
for how to easily move very large SQL Server databases to Postgres."

Methinks this was written by a marketer who doesn't understand Open
Source else they would know there is a difference between MS SQL server
and MySQL, 

Oi vey!

Don 

PS: Unless there's something going on that I haven't heard about lately?

On Wed, 2010-12-15 at 22:37 -0600, Adam Haeder wrote:
> I didn't even know there was a PostgreSQL certification
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