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PostgreSQL Data Types: JSON
Continuing our series of PostgreSQL Data Types today we’re going to introduce the PostgreSQL JSON type. PostgreSQL has built-in support for JSON with a great range …
Getting more out of PostgreSQL
Notes on SQL technique, data modeling, and PostgreSQL internals — from the author of The Art of PostgreSQL. New articles are built on the free Lab so you can run every query yourself.
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PostgreSQL Data Types: XML
Continuing our series of PostgreSQL Data Types today we’re going to introduce the PostgreSQL XML type. The SQL standard includes a SQL/XML which introduces the …
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PostgreSQL Data Types: Arrays
Continuing our series of PostgreSQL Data Types today we’re going to introduce the PostgreSQL array data types. Arrays can be used to denormalize data and avoid …
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PostgreSQL Data Types: Ranges
Continuing our series of PostgreSQL Data Types today we’re going to introduce the PostgreSQL ranges data type. Range types are a unique feature of PostgreSQL, …
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PostgreSQL Data Types: Network Addresses
Continuing our series of PostgreSQL Data Types today we’re going to introduce network address types. PostgreSQL includes support for both cidr, inet, and macaddr …
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PostgreSQL Data Types: Date and Time Processing
Continuing our series of PostgreSQL Data Types today we’re going to introduce date and time based processing functions. Once the application’s data, or rather …
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PostgreSQL Data Types: Text Processing
Continuing our series of PostgreSQL Data Types today we’re going to introduce some of the PostgreSQL text processing functions. There’s a very rich set of …
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PostgreSQL Data Types: Text Encoding
Continuing our series of PostgreSQL Data Types today we’re going to introduce the PostgreSQL text data type. The first notion to understand when processing text in …
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PostgreSQL Data Types: an intro
Today, we’re going to begin a dive into the PostgreSQL Data Types. As my colleague Will Leinweber said recently in his talk Constraints: a Developer’s Secret …
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Object Relational Database Management System
PostgreSQL is the world’s most advanced open source database, and per the PostgreSQL Wikipedia page it is an object-relational database management system (ORDBMS) …
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Database Normalization and Primary Keys
In our previous article we saw three classic Database Modelization Anti-Patterns. The article also contains a reference to a Primary Key section of my book The Art of …
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Database Modelization Anti-Patterns
Next week we see two awesome PostgreSQL conferences in Europe, back to back, with a day in between just so that people may attend both! In chronological order we have …