Mastering PostgreSQL 13. Build, administer, and maintain database applications efficiently with PostgreSQL 13 - Fourth Edition

Hans-Jürgen Schönig

Thanks to its reliability, robustness, and high performance, PostgreSQL has become one of the most advanced open source databases on the market. This updated fourth edition will help you understand PostgreSQL administration and how to build dynamic database solutions for enterprise apps with the latest release of PostgreSQL, including designing both physical and technical aspects of the system architecture with ease.Starting with an introduction to the new features in PostgreSQL 13, this book will guide you in building efficient and fault-tolerant PostgreSQL apps. You’ll explore advanced PostgreSQL features, such as logical replication, database clusters, performance tuning, advanced indexing, monitoring, and user management, to manage and maintain your database. You’ll then work with the PostgreSQL optimizer, configure PostgreSQL for high speed, and move from Oracle to PostgreSQL. The book also covers transactions, locking, and indexes, and shows you how to improve performance with query optimization. You’ll also focus on how to manage network security and work with backups and replication while exploring useful PostgreSQL extensions that optimize the performance of large databases.By the end of this PostgreSQL book, you’ll be able to get the most out of your database by executing advanced administrative tasks.

Mastering PostgreSQL 17. Elevate your database skills with advanced deployment, optimization, and security strategies - Sixth Edition

Hans-Jürgen Schönig

Starting with new features introduced in PostgreSQL 17, the sixth edition of this book provides comprehensive insights into advanced database management, helping you elevate your PostgreSQL skills to an expert level. Written by Hans-Jürgen Schönig, a PostgreSQL expert with over 25 years of experience and the CEO of CYBERTEC PostgreSQL International GmbH, this guide distills real-world expertise from supporting countless global customers. It guides you through crucial aspects of professional database management, including performance tuning, replication, indexing, and security strategies.You’ll learn how to handle complex queries, optimize execution plans, and enhance user interactions with advanced SQL features such as window functions and JSON support. Hans equips you with practical approaches for managing database locks, transactions, and stored procedures to ensure peak performance. With real-world examples and expert solutions, you'll also explore replication techniques for high availability, along with troubleshooting methods to detect and resolve bottlenecks, preparing you to tackle everyday challenges in database administration.By the end of the book, you'll be ready to deploy, secure, and maintain PostgreSQL databases efficiently in production environments.

Mistrzowski SQL. 61 technik pisania wydajnego kodu SQL

John L. Viescas, Douglas J. Steele, Ben G. Clothier

Bazy danych umożliwiają bezpieczne przechowywanie i użytkowanie danych. Dobrze napisana baza danych pracuje szybko i wydajnie. Najlepsze relacyjne bazy danych są nierozłącznie związane z językiem SQL, zatem aby profesjonalnie podejść do tego tematu, trzeba ten język dobrze opanować. SQL może wydawać się trudny i złożony, a co więcej, dla poszczególnych baz istnieją specyficzne dialekty SQL, niemniej jednak wspaniałe zalety najlepszych baz danych dostępne są tylko dla tych, którzy opanują sztukę pisania efektywnego kodu SQL. Niniejsza książka jest świetnym kompendium przeznaczonym dla osób o podstawowej znajomości SQL. Dzięki niej poznasz najlepsze współczesne techniki pisania w tym języku. Każdą z nich poparto realistycznymi (i przydatnymi!) przykładami. Innymi słowy, znajdziesz tu zrozumiale objaśnione sztuczki ekspertów i mnóstwo użytecznego kodu. Poza zagadnieniami składni omówiono również tematykę optymalizacji projektu bazy, a także zarządzania hierarchiami i metadanymi. Wyjątkowość tej książki polega na tym, że zawarty w niej materiał bez trudu zastosujesz do baz: IBM DB2, Microsoft Access, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle Database czy PostgreSQL. Spośród 61 zagadnień ujętych w książce warto wspomnieć o: zasadach projektowania modelu danych sposobach na efektywne wykorzystanie indeksów i więzów integralności metodach szybkiego wyszukiwania danych z zastosowaniem algebry relacyjnej stosowaniu podzapytań i złączeń tajnikach tabel kalkulacyjnych zbiorach zagnieżdżonych i domknięciach podległości Przekonaj się, jak szybki i wydajny może być Twój kod SQL! John L. Viescas — zajmuje się bazami danych od ponad 45 lat. Rozwiązywał problemy baz Access i SQL Server w firmach każdej wielkości. W Applied Data Research prowadził zespół rozwijający systemy bazodanowe IBM dla komputerów mainframe. Douglas J. Steele — od ponad 40 specjalizuje się w bazach danych i modelowaniu danych. Przez 17 lat był nagradzany tytułem MVP Microsoftu. Ben G. Clothier — MVP od roku 2009, jest architektem rozwiązań w znanej firmie programistycznej IT Impact. Wszyscy trzej są autorami i współautorami cenionych książek o bazach danych.

PostGIS Cookbook. For web developers and software architects this book will provide a vital guide to the tools and capabilities available to PostGIS spatial databases. Packed with hands-on recipes and powerful concepts

Paolo Corti, Stephen Vincent Mather, Thomas Kraft, Bborie Park

PostGIS Cookbook. Store, organize, manipulate, and analyze spatial data - Second Edition

Pedro Wightman, Bborie Park, Stephen Vincent Mather, Thomas Kraft, ...

PostGIS is a spatial database that integrates the advanced storage and analysis of vector and raster data, and is remarkably flexible and powerful. PostGIS provides support for geographic objects to the PostgreSQL object-relational database and is currently the most popular open source spatial databases. If you want to explore the complete range of PostGIS techniques and expose related extensions, then this book is for you. This book is a comprehensive guide to PostGIS tools and concepts which are required to manage, manipulate, and analyze spatial data in PostGIS. It covers key spatial data manipulation tasks, explaining not only how each task is performed, but also why. It provides practical guidance allowing you to safely take advantage of the advanced technology in PostGIS in order to simplify your spatial database administration tasks. Furthermore, you will learn to take advantage of basic and advanced vector, raster, and routing approaches along with the concepts of data maintenance, optimization, and performance, and will help you to integrate these into a large ecosystem of desktop and web tools.By the end, you will be armed with all the tools and instructions you need to both manage the spatial database system and make better decisions as your project's requirements evolve.

PostgreSQL 10 Administration Cookbook. Over 165 effective recipes for database management and maintenance in PostgreSQL 10 - Fourth Edition

Simon Riggs, Gianni Ciolli

PostgreSQL is a powerful, open source database management system with an enviable reputation for high performance and stability. With many new features in its arsenal, PostgreSQL 10 allows users to scale up their PostgreSQL infrastructure. This book takes a step-by-step, recipe-based approach to effective PostgreSQL administration.Throughout this book, you will be introduced to these new features such as logical replication, native table partitioning, additional query parallelism, and much more. You will learn how to tackle a variety of problems that are basically the pain points for any database administrator - from creating tables to managing views, from improving performance to securing your database. More importantly, the book pays special attention to topics such as monitoring roles, backup, and recovery of your PostgreSQL 10 database, ensuring high availability, concurrency, and replication.By the end of this book, you will know everything you need to know to be the go-to PostgreSQL expert in your organization.

PostgreSQL 11 Administration Cookbook. Over 175 recipes for database administrators to manage enterprise databases

Simon Riggs, Gianni Ciolli, Sudheer Kumar Meesala

PostgreSQL is a powerful, open source database management system with an enviable reputation for high performance and stability. With many new features in its arsenal, PostgreSQL 11 allows you to scale up your PostgreSQL infrastructure. This book takes a step-by-step, recipe-based approach to effective PostgreSQL administration.The book will introduce you to new features such as logical replication, native table partitioning, additional query parallelism, and much more to help you to understand and control, crash recovery and plan backups. You will learn how to tackle a variety of problems and pain points for any database administrator such as creating tables, managing views, improving performance, and securing your database. As you make steady progress, the book will draw attention to important topics such as monitoring roles, backup, and recovery of your PostgreSQL 11 database to help you understand roles and produce a summary of log files, ensuring high availability, concurrency, and replication.By the end of this book, you will have the necessary knowledge to manage your PostgreSQL 11 database efficiently.

PostgreSQL 12 High Availability Cookbook. Over 100 recipes to design a highly available server with the advanced features of PostgreSQL 12 - Third Edition

Shaun Thomas

Databases are nothing without the data they store. In the event of an outage or technical catastrophe, immediate recovery is essential. This updated edition ensures that you will learn the important concepts related to node architecture design, as well as techniques such as using repmgr for failover automation. From cluster layout and hardware selection to software stacks and horizontal scalability, this PostgreSQL cookbook will help you build a PostgreSQL cluster that will survive crashes, resist data corruption, and grow smoothly with customer demand.You’ll start by understanding how to plan a PostgreSQL database architecture that is resistant to outages and scalable, as it is the scaffolding on which everything rests. With the bedrock established, you'll cover the topics that PostgreSQL database administrators need to know to manage a highly available cluster. This includes configuration, troubleshooting, monitoring and alerting, backups through proxies, failover automation, and other considerations that are essential for a healthy PostgreSQL cluster. Later, you’ll learn to use multi-master replication to maximize server availability. Later chapters will guide you through managing major version upgrades without downtime.By the end of this book, you’ll have learned how to build an efficient and adaptive PostgreSQL 12 database cluster.