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You're reading from Learning PostgreSQL 10 A beginner's guide to building high-performance PostgreSQL database solutions

Product type Hardcover

Published in Jan 2019

Last Updated in Feb 2025

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781789535464

Length 556 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

SQL

Tools

PostgreSQL

Concepts

Database Programming

Authors (2):

Juba

Volkov

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

1. Relational Databases FREE CHAPTER

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

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Fundamentals

We started with a general introduction to the theory of relational algebra, relational databases, and data modeling. This was discussed in Chapter 1, Relational Databases.

Normalization

Normalization is a process of restructuring a relational database in order to bring its tables into one of the normal forms. There are several normal forms that define requirements to the structure of a table or, strictly speaking, a relation.

For example, a relation is in first normal form (1NF) only when each of its attributes contains a single value. To understand this concept, think about a table that contains a phone book where each record corresponds to a person. If a person has more than one telephone number, they all would...

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Authors (2)

Juba

Salahaldin Juba has over than a decade of experience in the industry and academia, with a focus on database development for large-scale and enterprise applications. He holds a master's degree of science in environmental management with a distinction, and a bachelor's degree of engineering 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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Volkov

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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