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Submit a Talk to pgDay Paris Today!
pgDay Paris 4th edition happens March 15, 2018! And the Call for Papers is still open, as it closes with the year: the submission deadline is December 31st, 2017. As …
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Setting up psql, the PostgreSQL CLI
PostgreSQL ships with an interactive console with the command line tool named psql. It can be used both for scripting and interactive usage and is moreover quite a …
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Mastering PostgreSQL: a reader's interview
Florent Fourcot has read Mastering PostgreSQL in Application Development and has seen tremendous inprovements in his production setup from reading the first chapters and …
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Mastering PostgreSQL: more about the docker image
The Enterprise Edition of Mastering PostgreSQL in Application Development ships with a docker image that hosts both a PostgreSQL server instance with a pre-loaded …
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Queen, Princesses, and Workers
The PostgreSQL community made the explicit choice some times ago that they would not use the infamous master and slave terminology. Instead, the documentation introduces …
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Scaling Python released
Today I am very pleased to announce the release of the book Scaling Python from my good friend Julien Danjou! As Julien says, Python applications can handle millions of …
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Simple Data Modeling with a Test Data Set
In How to Write SQL we saw how to write SQL queries as separate .sql files, and we learnt about using query parameters with the psql syntax for that (:variable, …
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The Mode Ordered-Set Aggregate Function
In our article Exploring a Data Set in SQL we discovered a data set related to music: the Chinook sample database. Our discovery led us to find albums containing tracks …
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What's in a name: “Mastering”
Now that my book Mastering PostgreSQL in Application Development is released (and selling well, thanks guys!), I’ve had some questions about the title. The idea is …
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Mastering PostgreSQL in Application Development launches!
Today is the day my book Mastering PostgreSQL in Application Development launches! I’m all excited that everybody interested is now able to actually read my book! …
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Set Returning Functions and PostgreSQL 10
PostgreSQL 10 is now available for everyone to use, and hinted by David Fetter I had to review my previous article on Json and SQL to adapt to Set Returning Functions …
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on Json and SQL
PostgreSQL has had proper json support for a while now. The unique extensibility approach of the PostgreSQL system allows it to enable native SQL friendly JSON …