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Published inJan 2023
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Hans-Jürgen Schönig
Hans-Jürgen Schönig
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Hans-Jürgen Schönig

Hans-Jürgen Schönig has 20 years' experience with PostgreSQL. He is the CEO of a PostgreSQL consulting and support company called CYBERTEC PostgreSQL International GmbH. It has successfully served countless customers around the globe. Before founding CYBERTEC PostgreSQL International GmbH in 2000, he worked as a database developer at a private research company that focused on the Austrian labor market, where he primarily worked on data mining and forecast models. He has also written several books about PostgreSQL.
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This chapter was all about system statistics. You learned how to extract information from PostgreSQL and how to use system statistics in a beneficial way. Without proper monitoring, achieving good and reliable operations is close to impossible. It is important to keep an eye on runtime parameters and database vitals to avoid trouble. This chapter has taught you a lot about PostgreSQL monitoring, which can be used to optimize your database.

The most important views were discussed in detail. Chapter 6, Optimizing Queries for Good Performance, which is the next chapter in this book, is all about query optimization. You will learn how to inspect queries and how they are optimized.

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Hans-Jürgen Schönig

Hans-Jürgen Schönig has 20 years' experience with PostgreSQL. He is the CEO of a PostgreSQL consulting and support company called CYBERTEC PostgreSQL International GmbH. It has successfully served countless customers around the globe. Before founding CYBERTEC PostgreSQL International GmbH in 2000, he worked as a database developer at a private research company that focused on the Austrian labor market, where he primarily worked on data mining and forecast models. He has also written several books about PostgreSQL.
Read more about Hans-Jürgen Schönig