Since the beginning of my journey into the data world I’ve been keen on making professionals better at their data job. In the previous years that took the shape of creating materials in several different forms that could help people understand, use, and avoid mistakes on their data tool of choice. But now there’s much more into it: a trusted AI solution to help data professional in their day to day optimization job.

Testing a database performance is a must in every company. Despite everyone’s needs beings slightly different, a good starting point for PostgreSQL® database is using pgbench: a tool shipped with the PostgreSQL installation that allows you to stress test a local or remote database. This blog post showcases how to install (on a Mac) and use pgbench to create load on a remote PostgreSQL database on Aiven.

Some time ago I found an interesting database file suffix I never faced before: the .dbf and saw around that it was first introduced in 1983 with dBASE II. This article showcases how we can automatically generate the PostgreSQL table and fill it with data using Python and dbfread.