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2008-07-01 Data Warehouse DBA

lapug — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 20:00:29 +0100

Data Warehouse DBA

Fox Interactive Media (FIM),
a start-up division of News Corporation, is seeking an experienced Data Warehouse DBA for the FIM Audience
Network group.

The FIM Audience Network
group is comprised of FIM’s ad technology, ad operations, and performance sales
groups focused on monetizing social media. The technology group is responsible
to provide top-tier solutions to optimize monetization across FIM’s content
network (including MySpace.com) and those
of other third-party publishers. Projects include leveraging optimization
technologies to provide relevant ads, aggregating data into one of the
largest and fastest growing Data Warehouse system in the world to power BI
tools, and building consumer-facing tools to enable social interaction and ads.
We are located in the heart of a beautiful Santa Monica and offer casual/flexible team-oriented work
environment and a very comprehensive compensation and benefits package, which include
onsite Fitness Center, Swimming Pool, Tennis, and Squash Courts. We also offer relocation and
visa assistance.

As an Enterprise Data
Warehouse DBA you will be responsible for the overall health, maintenance, and
performance of the multi-terabyte EDW system
including 24x7 support.

KEY DUTIES AND
RESPONSIBLITIES INCLUDE:

Administer, monitor, maintain, and support data
warehouse systems and databases.
Conduct regular performance testing and tuning.
Provide development and testing support.
Identify the problems, which may include query
tuning, server tuning, etc.
Work with DB appliance vendor(s), Sys Ops, and
others to resolve problems, outages, or slowdowns.
Runtime optimization, capacity management and
planning, security, configuration, scheduling, and execution of maintenance
utilities.
Drive planning and execution of
hardware/software upgrades and expansion.
Shell scripting, system tuning, and
troubleshooting on UNIX.
Providing support to ETL and BI
team.
Participates in developing data warehouse
standards, policies, and procedures.
Develop, document, and manage data warehouse
maintenance processes and procedures.
Identify and leverage opportunities to
continually improve the quality of systems, processes, data, or metadata.
Actively promote the understanding of EDW concepts
and methods.

EDUCATION AND
EXPERIENCE:

Minimum of 5 years DBA experience esp. supporting
production DWH DB.
8+ years IT industry experience.
Must have experience in supporting OLAP / BI-DW
workloads in a multi-Terabyte environment.
Knowledge of DW Design (MPP architecture) and
its impact on performance.
Experience with large scale, massively parallel,
shared nothing database architectures (Teradata / Netezza / Greenplum /
Vertica, etc.). Nice to have PostgreSQL background.
Understands data warehouse concepts, practices,
methodologies, and architectural approaches.
Proven ability to troubleshoot and resolve
problems quickly; document issues from production problems, propose
solutions and implement them.
Knowledge of Linux & Solaris 10 operating
systems and scripting language.
On-call support for production systems.
Ability to work effectively in a team
environment and able to think strategically as well as execute effectively
with a high level of attention to detail.
Good verbal and written communication skills.
Bachelor's degree required, preferably in
Computer Science.

Manish Agarwal
Manager - Data Services
Fox Interactive Media (FIM)
2500 Broadway, 2nd Floor
Santa Monica CA 90404
t: (310) 633-9702
c: (310) 801-2953
email: manish.agarwal@fox.com

2008-07-01 PostgreSQL Database Administrator

lapug — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:53:01 +0100

PostgreSQL Database Administrator

Fox Interactive Media (FIM),
a start-up division of News Corporation, is seeking an experienced PostgreSQL DBA for the FIM Audience
Network group.

The FIM Audience Network
group is comprised of FIM’s ad technology, ad operations, and performance sales
groups focused on monetizing social media. The technology group is responsible
to provide top-tier solutions to optimize monetization across FIM’s content
network (including MySpace.com) and those
of other third-party publishers. Projects include leveraging optimization
technologies to provide relevant ads, aggregating data into one of the
largest and fastest growing Data Warehouse system in the world to power BI
tools, and building consumer-facing tools to enable social interaction and ads.
We are located in the heart of a beautiful Santa Monica and offer casual/flexible team-oriented work
environment and a very comprehensive compensation and benefits package, which
include onsite Fitness Center, Swimming Pool, Tennis, and Squash Courts. We also offer relocation and
visa assistance.

The PostgreSQL DBA will
primarily be responsible for providing 24x7 database support including the
overall database health, maintenance, performance, reliability, and scalability
of the Postgres databases that power our different applications.

KEY DUTIES AND
RESPONSIBLITIES INCLUDE:

Design, implement, and maintain 24x/7 high
availability Postgres production and development databases.
Participate in database design for new
features/functionality.
Plan and support the implementation of major
architectural changes.
Install, tune and monitor Postgres database
instances.
Define and implement maintenance procedures
including Disaster Recovery, HA, DB maintenance, Backup solution, etc.
Provide direction in capacity planning,
performance improvements, and storage management in partnership with System
Operations and Development teams.
Ongoing performance analysis, monitoring,
troubleshooting, and resolution of issues.
Interface with System operations and vendors to
resolve problems with application/database systems.
On-call support for production systems.
Maintain and contribute to and update systems
documentation as required.
Implement, refine, and maintain database
replication and failover.
Develop, refine, and monitor recurring cron jobs
and shell/sql scripts.
Query analysis and optimization.
Data import and data migration.

EDUCATION AND
EXPERIENCE:

5+ years Database Administration (DBA)
experience.
Minimum 2 years of direct PostgreSQL experience
(including replication, partitioning, high availability) and familiarity
with PG utilities and tools like – Slony, PGPool, PGAdmin, etc.
Experience in high transaction rate OLTP
environment and supporting VLDBs (multi Terabytes).
Knowledge of Linux & Solaris 10 operating
systems and scripting language.
Nice to have MySQL or any other traditional
database experience.
Strong Database Troubleshooting and Problem
Resolution skills.
Capable of translating complex business needs
into technical solutions.
Strong interpersonal and relationship building
skills conducive to team development.
Excellent communication skills, both written and
verbal.
Bachelor’s degree preferred but not required.

Manish Agarwal
Manager - Data Services
Fox Interactive Media (FIM)
2500 Broadway, 2nd Floor
Santa Monica CA 90404
t: (310) 633-9702
c: (310) 801-2953
email: manish.agarwal@fox.com

Using Python with PostgreSQL

johnzarr — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 22:50:56 +0100

Python and PostgreSQL make an unbeatable combination of processing power and persistent data storage. The Python language provides superior expressive power for solving problems in very diverse fields -- from web services to numerical analysis. PostgreSQL supplies a high-integrity, reliable database that ensures continuous availability of the information you need to solve those problems.

This introductory talk will show how to use the Python Database API Specification v2.0 to:

1. Connect to a PostgreSQL database.
2. Execute simple queries.
3. Execute queries with parameters from your program.
4. Fetch query results from the database.
5. Delete or update database tables from your program.

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javadoc2sql

doj — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 01:11:34 +0100

When writing my DDL statements I like to document them with javadoc inspired comments. The "pgcomment" tool will convert those comments into "COMMENT" SQL statements, so the comments are present inside PostgreSQL. Optionally you can convert the javadoc to LaTeX or HTML.

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selenamarie — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 05:09:23 +0100

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The Business Case for PostgreSQL

bmomjian — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 19:41:27 +0100

This talk is about the many advantages of using PostgreSQL in your company.

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Using PostGIS to add some spatial flavor to your applications

scitronpousty — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 23:38:46 +0100

With the advent of neogeography everyone wants to do something spatial with their applications. In this session I will give an introduction to PostGIS (a spatial blade for PostreSQL) and then show you how to get some cool mapping magic going. We make sure your PostGIS install is working, download some data from the internet, load it into PostGIS, and then start asking some interesting spatial questions of the data. We will look at queries calculate distance and area, calculate centroids, test distance or containment, and we will clip features to a bounding box. Demos and code will be shown for using these functions in desktop applications and in custom applications.

(NOT THE ABSTRACT) If you do not receive a workshop submission we can do this as more hands on and have some more fun with it. I am willing to do this if you receive nothing else but right now prefer to only commit to an hour but can do more. If so then people should sign up for accounts on the deCarta devZone http://developer.decarta.com so we can do some live coding.

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Where should be meet most?

lapug — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 20:06:21 +0100

* City Of Garden Grove: Youth Cafe' * Near LAX: Secom International * Cal-Poly Pomona: Computer Science Building * Pasadena: Cal-Tech * Don't Care: Will meet Anywhere.

About a girl by Cibo Matto

admin — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 18:55:56 +0100