Karen Jex
Karen was a database administrator for over 20 years and was once described as "quite personable for a DBA", which she decided to take as a compliment! She's now a Senior Solutions Architect at Crunchy Data, helping her customers to design and manage their (PostgreSQL) database environments.
Karen gives talks about databases at PostgreSQL and developer conferences because she loves sharing knowledge. She is a PostgreSQL Europe board member and conference organiser, and chairs the PostgreSQL Europe Diversity Committee.
Session
What happens behind the scenes when you send a query to your database? How is the data stored, retrieved and modified? Why should you care?
With a basic understanding of the way select, insert and update operations work, you can make sure your code and database play nicely together!