Tree Tricks
David Fetter
Extended (60 minutes) on Wednesday, 24 November 2010 10:30 - 11:30 in room Room 1
SQL databases are fantastic tools for everything except trees...or were until now. Find out how to turn them loose in recursive structures. Using powerful techniques from graph theory, you'll be able to constrain those trees just as you would any other database object.
David Fetter
Co-Founder
PostgreSQL Experts, Inc.
David Fetter, a founder of PostgreSQL Experts, is based in the San
Francisco Bay Area and has worked in various commercial enterprises,
non-profits and educational institutions. He has worked extensively
with PostgreSQL, Oracle, MySQL, Perl, PHP, PL/SQL, PL/PgSQL, PL/Perl
and (of course!) vim on transaction processing and business
intelligence systems.
In his free time, he brews beer, rides his bicycle, and helps run
several organizations for computer professionals including the Oakland
Perl Users' Group, the San Francisco PostgreSQL Users' Group and the
San Francisco Perl Users' Group.