Teamwork is essential in all areas of our work life, including how we interact with other teams daily. Lessons learned from highly effective teams, such as SEAL Team Six, show six significant impacts on effectiveness: chain of command, team cohesion, standard operating procedures, training, mission objectives, and after-action analysis. Failure in any of these areas can impact team effectivenes...

@ Silicon Valley 2023
Aaron Cutshall
Ops

    Determining how to efficient design database structures for a given application has always relied on the same old answer: “It depends!” So, how do you determine what level of normalization your data requires? This session will review the principles of data normalization, show the impact that normalization can have on performance and data integrity, and just as importantly, show you when it’s OK...

    @ 2025 Postgres World Webinar Series

    May 27 2025

    Fundamentals

    Teamwork is important in all areas, including development, QA or other teams that we interact with daily. Lessons learned from highly effective teams show that there are six major impacts to team effectiveness: chain of command, team cohesion, standard operating procedures, training, mission objectives and after action analysis. A failure in any of these areas can impact team effectiveness. In ...

    @ 2025 Postgres World Webinar Series

    Jun 3 2025

    Life & Leadership

    Most people don’t like to speak in public and technical folks are certainly no exception. Yet, you’ve got some ideas for a great presentation but just don’t know how to go about putting it all together. On top of that, how do you go about giving the presentation itself? This session will cover how to pull your material together in an organized fashion and present it such that your audience (bot...

    @ 2025 Postgres World Webinar Series

    Apr 29 2025

    Life & Leadership

    Most people don’t like speaking in public, and technical folks are no exception. Yet, you’ve got some ideas for a great presentation but don’t know how to put it all together. On top of that, how do you give the presentation itself? This session will cover how to pull your material together in an organized fashion and present it such that your audience can follow along and get the message you w...

    @ Postgres Conference 2025

    Mar 19 2025

    Professional Development

    Database queries, stored procedures, and poorly written functions are the main contributors to performance degradation in Postgres because it is optimized for set-based processing over procedural processing. The sad reality is that too much code is written from a procedural point of view because many database developers started as procedural programmers. Also, many applications use Postgres as ...

    @ Postgres Conference 2025

    Mar 18 2025

    Dev

    SQL Team Six: How to Build Effective Teams

    The essentials of leadership and effective teams

    Effective leadership and efficient teams are critical to success, where today's business requirements put people with diverse backgrounds, skills, and experiences together in teams under tight schedules with intense pressure. Therefore, teamwork is essential in all areas of our work life, including how we interact with other teams daily. Lessons learned from highly effective teams, such as SEAL...

    @ Seattle 2024

    Nov 7 2024

    Essentials