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Learning PostgreSQL 11 - Third Edition

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Published in Jan 2019
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ISBN-13 9781789535464
Pages 556 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Salahaldin Juba Salahaldin Juba
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Salahaldin Juba has over a decade of experience in industry and academia, with a focus on database development for large-scale and enterprise applications. He holds an MSc in environmental management with a distinction, and a B.Eng in computer systems. He is also a Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD). He has worked mainly with SQL server, PostgreSQL, and Greenplum databases. As a software engineer, he works mainly with defining ETL processes with external parties, promoting SQL best practices, designing OLTP and OLAP applications, and providing training and consultation services.
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Andrey Volkov Andrey Volkov
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Andrey Volkov studied information systems in banking, and started his career as a financial analyst at a commercial bank. He joined a data warehouse team, and after some time, he lead the team by taking the position of the data warehouse architect. There he worked mainly with Oracle database stack and used it to develop logical and physical models of financial and accounting data, implement them in the database, develop ETL processes, and perform analytical tasks. Now Andrey works as a senior database developer at a telecommunication provider. There, he works mainly with PostgreSQL databases, being responsible for data modeling, developing a data warehouse, reporting, and billing systems.
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters close

1. Relational Databases 2. PostgreSQL in Action 3. PostgreSQL Basic Building Blocks 4. PostgreSQL Advanced Building Blocks 5. SQL Language 6. Advanced Query Writing 7. Server-Side Programming with PL/pgSQL 8. OLAP and Data Warehousing 9. Beyond Conventional Data Types 10. Transactions and Concurrency Control 11. PostgreSQL Security 12. The PostgreSQL Catalog 13. Optimizing Database Performance 14. Testing 15. Using PostgreSQL in Python Applications 16. Scalability 17. What's Next? 18. Other Books You May Enjoy

Questions

  1. What is SQL?
  2. What are the three main parts of SQL?
  3. What are keywords in SQL?
  4. How do we specify a constant string value in SQL code?
  5. How do we insert a single record into a table?
  6. How to insert many records into a table by taking them from another table?
  7. How do we change records in a table?
  8. How do we change records in a table that takes new values from another table?
  9. Is there a way to get the values of updated or inserted records right after a changing command?
  10. How do we retrieve data from a table?
  11. What is a table join?
  12. What is the difference between an INNER JOIN and an OUTER JOIN?
  13. What is a CROSS JOIN?
  14. How do we filter rows when retrieving them from a table?
  15. Is there a difference between SQL expressions and SQL conditions?
  16. What are grouping and aggregation?
  17. When using grouping, is there a way to filter groups?
  18. How do we limit the result set to a certain number of...
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Salahaldin Juba has over a decade of experience in industry and academia, with a focus on database development for large-scale and enterprise applications. He holds an MSc in environmental management with a distinction, and a B.Eng in computer systems. He is also a Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD). He has worked mainly with SQL server, PostgreSQL, and Greenplum databases. As a software engineer, he works mainly with defining ETL processes with external parties, promoting SQL best practices, designing OLTP and OLAP applications, and providing training and consultation services.
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Andrey Volkov studied information systems in banking, and started his career as a financial analyst at a commercial bank. He joined a data warehouse team, and after some time, he lead the team by taking the position of the data warehouse architect. There he worked mainly with Oracle database stack and used it to develop logical and physical models of financial and accounting data, implement them in the database, develop ETL processes, and perform analytical tasks. Now Andrey works as a senior database developer at a telecommunication provider. There, he works mainly with PostgreSQL databases, being responsible for data modeling, developing a data warehouse, reporting, and billing systems.
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