Timothy Steward

Senior Sales Engineer, EDB

Tim Steward is a Sales Engineer at EDB with over 20 years of database experience. During this time, he has developed a true passion for databases, and the evolution of technology. Tim enjoys the excitement he receives by knowing he helped a customer solve complex IT challenges by using his knowledge of database technology. Fresh out of college, Tim became an Oracle DBA within the fundraising industry, which is where he learned to pay attention to details and be an effective listener. As his career evolved he became a consultant within the healthcare industry where he expanded his database skills to Sybase.  During his consulting years, Tim added SQL Server and the MySQL database to his skill set, Tim also spent several years supporting Oracle E-Business Suite.

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Postgres Tutorials

Quickstart guide on using pgPool

This guide is intended to get you up and started with a default installation of pgPool in front of a master and streaming replica. There is much more to pgPool that is not covered in this quickstart, the intent here is only to get you a simple configuration working as quickly as possible.
Postgres Tutorials

Demonstration of using SQL Protect with that Postgres cluster

Quickly (less than five minutes) install and run EPAS 9.5/9.6 on RHEL 5/6 and demonstrate using SQL Protect with that Postgres cluster.
EDB Labs

How to Choose Which Database to Use

Some notes What is SQL database? What is NoSQL database? NoSQL types of databases (Document oriented, columnar, keyvalue and Graph) Relational Vs Document (NoSQL) key differences. Today, many people are selecting their database based on the popularity ratings or the latest industry buzz words. However, trending technology may or may not be the best decision for your database selection. In the...