PostgreSQL: From Idea to Database - Table of Contents

PostgreSQL: From Idea to Database is a series of blog posts written to teach practical database design. This series focuses on practical examples to illustrate why and how database theory matters and applies.

Note: This series is a constantly evolving and improving collection. I continue to update this page as new content is published.

Table of contents

The following listing includes links to the pages that are already published along with placeholders for planned future topics. The future topics are likely to change in title, content and scope and I fully suspect the ToC will only grow as I start to work in the real content!

Main topics

• Introduction to PostgreSQL: From Idea to Database series (2018)
• PostgreSQL Crash Course (2018)
• Define, Design, Repeat (2018)
• Build your Data Dictionary in PostgreSQL (2018)
• Enhance your PostgreSQL Data Dictionary (2018)
• Tools for Designing Databases
• PostgreSQL vs. MySQL: Why we use PostgreSQL (2016)
• Database Anti-patterns: Performance Killers (2018)
• Deploying PostgreSQL using Sqitch
• Database lifecycle
• Backup and Restore
• Databases and change over time
• PostgreSQL, JSON and PiWS
• PostgreSQL Functions - Data as an API

Advanced topics

Performance

• PostgreSQL 10 Parallel Queries and Performance (2018)
• Testing PostgreSQL Unlogged Tables for Performance (2016)
• PostgreSQL performance on Raspberry Pi (2019)
• PostgreSQL performance on Raspberry Pi, Reporting edition (2019)
• PostgreSQL Load Testing (2017)

Spatial data (PostGIS)

• PostGIS: Tame your spatial data (Part 1) (2018)
• PostGIS: Tame your spatial data (Part 2) (2018)
• Load OpenStreetMap data to PostGIS (2019)
• osm2pgsql on a Raspberry Pi (2019)
• PgOSM: Transform OpenStreetMap data in PostGIS (2019)
• PgOSM Transformations explained (2019)
• FIXED! --> Gotcha restoring XML data from pg_dump (2019, 2018)

Security

• CIS Benchmarks

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