Rob Fitzpatrick
Senior OpenEdge DBA, White Star Software
Toronto, Canada
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Rob Fitzpatrick is a Senior OpenEdge DBA and also provides support for ProTop, White Star Software's industry-leading monitoring and alerting solution for OpenEdge databases, application components, and systems. He joined White Star Software in 2020.
Prior to White Star, Rob spent thirteen years with a Progress partner in Canada in the financial services industry, where he specialized in OpenEdge RDBMS performance, troubleshooting, and reliability.
Rob speaks at OpenEdge conferences in Europe and North America and is active in the Progress community.
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OpenEdge RDBMS storage internals
Have you ever wondered:
- What are recids and rowids and dbkeys and what do they tell us?
- What are all the differences between the Type 1 and Type 2 storage architectures,
and which one should I use?
- What types of blocks are there in a database?
- How are the different block types laid out inside of storage areas?
- What are the internal layouts of database blocks?
- And why should I care about this stuff?
Come to this session for a whirlwind tour deep in the weeds of the OpenEdge RDBMS. It will be interesting and geeky and possibly even useful!
Back to Basics: After Imaging and the AI Management Daemon
After Imaging (AI) is an essential building block of your OpenEdge RDBMS disaster-recovery strategy. Come to this session to learn about what AI is, why you should always use it, how to configure and monitor it effectively, and how to use the AI File Management Daemon (AIMD).
We will also discuss AI file retention, and how AI files can be useful in scenarios beyond disaster recovery.
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Rob Fitzpatrick
Senior OpenEdge DBA, White Star Software
Toronto, Canada
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