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You are invited to a free, live webcast: 10 Ways to Wreck Your Database, presented by Josh Berkus

Press release: July 2, 2009

Want to make sure your database loses data, duplicates records, and can only handle 5 transactions a minute? Want to make your application developers curse you, your sysadmin hate you, and get yourself fired without a reference? These ten database design techniques will set you on the road to downtime perdition and maintenance hell.

Attendance is limited, so register now. We'll send you a reminder before the webcast. And please feel free to share this invitation with others.

Date: Friday, July 10th at 10 am PT
Price: Free
Duration: Approximately 60 minutes
To register: oreilly.com/go/databasewreck
Questions? Please send email to webcast@oreilly.com


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About Josh Berkus
Josh Berkus is primarily known as one of the Core Team of the world-spanning open source database project PostgreSQL. He has been involved with various open source projects since 1998, including SPI, OpenOffice.org, LedgerSMB, Bricolage and OpenBRR and is on the selection committee for OSCON. Josh consults on database performance, and also makes pottery.

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