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Mastering PostgreSQL 11: Expert techniques to build scalable,reliable,and fault-tolerant database applications,2nd Edition
Authors: Hans-Jurgen Schonig
ISBN-10 书号: 1789537819
ISBN-13 书号: 9781789537819
Publisher Finelybook 出版日期: 2018-10-30
pages 页数: 450 pages
Book Description
This second edition of Mastering PostgreSQL 11 helps you build dynamic database solutions for enterprise applications using the latest release of PostgreSQL,which enables database analysts to design both the physical and technical aspects of the system architecture with ease.
This book begins with an introduction to the newly released features in PostgreSQL 11 to help you build efficient and fault-tolerant PostgreSQL applications. You’ll examine all of the advanced aspects of PostgreSQL in detail,including logical replication,database clusters,performance tuning,monitoring,and user management. You will also work with the PostgreSQL optimizer,configuring PostgreSQL for high speed,and see how to move from Oracle to PostgreSQL. As you progress through the chapters,you will cover transactions,locking,indexes,and optimizing queries to improve performance. Additionally,you’ll learn to manage network security and explore backups and replications,while understanding the useful extensions of PostgreSQL so that you can optimize the speed and performance of large databases.
By the end of this book,you will be able to use your database to its utmost capacity by implementing advanced administrative tasks with ease.
Contents
1: POSTGRESQL OVERVIEW
2: UNDERSTANDING TRANSACTIONS AND LOCKING
3: MAKING USE OF INDEXES
4: HANDLING ADVANCED SQL
5: LOG FILES AND SYSTEM STATISTICS
6: OPTIMIZING QUERIES FOR GOOD PERFORMANCE
7: WRITING STORED PROCEDURES
8: MANAGING POSTGRESQL SECURITY
9: HANDLING BACKUP AND RECOVERY
10: MAKING SENSE OF BACKUPS AND REPLICATION
11: DECIDING ON USEFUL EXTENSIONS
12: TROUBLESHOOTING POSTGRESQL
13: MIGRATING TO POSTGRESQL
What you will learn
Get to grips with advanced PostgreSQL 11 features and SQL functions
Make use of the indexing features in PostgreSQL and fine-tune the performance of your queries
Work with stored procedures and manage backup and recovery
Master replication and failover techniques
Troubleshoot your PostgreSQL instance for solutions to common and not-so-common problems
Perform database migration from MySQL and Oracle to PostgreSQL with ease
Authors
Hans-Jürgen Schönig
Hans-Jürgen Schönig has 18 years' experience with PostgreSQL. He is the CEO of a PostgreSQL consulting and support company called Cybertec Schönig and Schönig GmbH. It has successfully served countless customers around the globe. Before founding Cybertec Schönig and Schönig 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.
