Learn PostgreSQL: Use, manage, and build secure and scalable databases with PostgreSQL 16
Language: English
Published by Packt Publishing, 2023
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- Title
- Learn PostgreSQL: Use, manage, and build secure and scalable databases with PostgreSQL 16
- Author
- Luca Ferrari; Enrico Pirozzi
- Publisher
- Packt Publishing
- Publication year
- 2023
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1837635641
- ISBN 13
- 9781837635641
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
This new edition will help you learn PostgreSQL from scratch with the latest version, providing a complete focused view on aspects like configuration, high performance, partitioning, backup, server-side programming and replication.
Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free eBook in PDF format.
Key Features
- Learn the fundamentals of PostgreSQL 16, including SQL statements, replication, and security
- Enhance your learning journey with the provided Docker images for practical hands-on exercises and tests at the end of each chapter
- Get new and improved examples, use-cases, and scenarios specifically for concepts like partitioning, replication, back-up and restore, cluster configuration, monitoring and others
Book Description
The latest edition of this PostgreSQL book will help you to start using PostgreSQL from absolute scratch, helping you to quickly understand the internal workings of the database. With a structured approach and practical examples, go on a journey that covers the basics, from SQL statements and how to run server-side programs, to configuring, managing, securing, and optimizing database performance.
This new edition will not only help you get to grips with all the recent changes within the PostgreSQL ecosystem but will also dig deeper into concepts like partitioning and replication with a fresh set of examples. The book is also equipped with Docker images for each chapter which makes the learning experience faster and easier. Starting with the absolute basics of databases, the book sails through to advanced concepts like window functions, logging, auditing, extending the database, configuration, partitioning, and replication. It will also help you seamlessly migrate your existing database system to PostgreSQL and contains a dedicated chapter on disaster recovery. Each chapter ends with practice questions to test your learning at regular intervals.
By the end of this book, you will be able to install, configure, manage, and develop applications against a PostgreSQL database.
What you will learn
- Gain a deeper understanding of PostgreSQL internals like transactions, MVCC, security and replication
- Enhance data management with PostgreSQL’s latest partitioning features
- Choose the right replication strategy for your database
- See concrete examples of how to migrate data from another database, perform backups and restores, monitor your PostgreSQL installation and more
- Ensure security and compliance with schemas and user privileges
- Create customized database functions and extensions
- Get to grips with server-side programming, window functions, and triggers
Who This Book Is For
Learning PostgresSQL 16 book is for anyone interested in learning about the PostgreSQL database from scratch. Anyone looking to build robust data warehousing applications and scale the database for high-availability and performance using the latest features of PostgreSQL will also find this book useful. Although prior knowledge of PostgreSQL is not required, familiarity with databases is expected.
Table of Contents
- Introduction to PostgreSQL
- Getting to know your cluster
- Managing users and connections
- Basic Statements
- Advanced Statements
- Window Functions
- Server-Side Programming
- Triggers and Rules
- Partitioning
- Users, Roles, and Database Security
- Transactions, MVCC, WALs, and Checkpoints
- Extending the Database- the Extension Ecosystem
- Indexes and Performance Optimization
- Logging and Auditing
- Backup and Restore
- Disaster Recovery
- Configuration and Monitoring
- Replication
- Useful tools and extensions
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About the Author
Enrico Pirozzi, EnterpriseDB certified on implementation management and tuning, with a master's in computer science, has been a PostgreSQL DBA since 2003. Based in Italy, he has been providing database advice to clients in industries such as manufacturing and web development for 10 years. He has been training others on PostgreSQL since 2008. Dedicated to open source technology since early in his career, he is a cofounder of the PostgreSQL Italian mailing list, PostgreSQL-it, and of the PostgreSQL Italian community site, PSQL
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