When: 6-8pm Thursday Feb 18, 2016
Where: Iovation
Who: Jason Owen
What: Incremental Schema Discovery via JSON Wrangling
Over the last few releases, Postgres has added and expanded support for storing and querying JSON documents. While the simplicity and flexibility of storing free-form data can be appealing, frequently what’s stored is actually fairly structured. Using data from the GitHub Archive, Jason will show how easy it is to load JSON into Postgres, demonstrate some fairly mechanical schema refactorings to extract structure from JSON data, and then compare the resulting normalized tables with the original, with the documentation, and with the data set loaded into Google BigQuery.
Jason has been using Postgres in earnest for two years now. While he’s worn the DBA hat as a full stack engineer from time to time, he is primarily a developer. He works at Tripwire and is an alumnus of Portland State University. Sometimes he says things online as @jasonaowen.
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Our meeting will be held at Iovation, on the 32nd floor of the US Bancorp Tower at 111 SW 5th (5th & Oak). It’s right on the Green & Yellow Max lines. Underground bike parking is available in the parking garage; outdoors all around the block in the usual spots. No bikes in the office, sorry!
Elevators open at 5:45 and building security closes access to the floor at 6:30.
When you arrive at the Iovation office, please sign in on the iPad at the reception desk.
See you there!
