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Introduction to PostgreSQL

  • Overview of PostgreSQL History
  • Key Features
  • Summary of Internal Mechanics
  • Limits and Terminology

Installation and Configuration

  • Prerequisites
  • Installing via Packages and Database Creation
  • Installing from Source Code
  • Setting Up the Client
  • Starting and Stopping the Database Server
  • Configuring the Environment

The SQL Language

  • SQL Syntax
  • Data Definition
  • Data Manipulation
  • Querying Data
  • Data Types
  • JSON Support
  • Functions and Operators
  • Type Conversion
  • Indexes

Transactions and Concurrency

  • Transactions and Isolation Levels
  • Multi-Version Concurrency Control (MVCC)

Client Interfaces

  • Command Line Interface - psql
  • Graphical Interface - pgadmin4

Server Programming

  • Extending SQL Functionality
  • Implementing Triggers
  • The Rule System
  • Procedural Languages
  • PL/pgSQL - SQL Procedural Language
  • Managing Errors
  • Working with Cursors

Foreign Data Wrappers

  • Extensions in PostgreSQL
  • Adding FDWs to a Database
  • postgres_fdw
  • file_fdw
  • Other Available FDWs

SQL Tuning

  • Logging Mechanisms in PostgreSQL
  • Analyzing Query Plans
  • Query Optimization
  • Database Statistics
  • Planner Parameters
  • Parallel Query Scans
  • SQL Best Practices
  • Index Management
  • Table Partitioning

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A practical understanding of SQL

 14 Hours

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