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Title: PostgreSQL Essential Reference by Barry Stinson ISBN: 0-7357-1121-6 Publisher: SAMS Pub. Date: October, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.79 (28 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: I have used this book over a month and I like it.
Comment: With help "INDEX" I can find necessary command
and small example about it in few seconds.
There is so much information on those 371 pages:
data types, operators, all functions with short examples,
admin utils and common administration tasks (backup, restore, users, rights),
server-side programming overview (PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl),
client-side programming overview (Perl,Python, PHP, ODBC, ...),
complete SQL command reference etc.
Lots of small examples.
If you need instruction how to use syslog for logging? Log rotating?
You find the answer very quickly.
Short, but interesting overview - PostgreSQL versus other RDBMs.
It's a small book, but there is a lot of good information inside :)
I use this book in my work and I recomend it.
Excelent PostgreSQL reference. Professional work.
Rating: 5
Summary: Good reference and more
Comment:
This book is best for people who are somewhat familiar with databases and when a database is helpful. It provides lots of good info in addition to a SQL reference: performance tuning tips, client programming information for all the popular languages, server programming information, administrative information. The book is reference style; it isn't meant to be read cover to cover.
What's Bad: Most of the info here can be found online, so it might be a little pricey at ($), but it looks like amazon is selling it for about ($), which is quite reasonable.
What's Good: The book gives really helpful information about the core concepts (which really help to remember the information), rather than merely listing specifications (although it does a good job of the latter as well).
I rated this book a "5" because it provided more than I really expected. It provides nearly all of the information that you need to get postgresql working the way you would like it to, including the clients.
Rating: 1
Summary: Sum profreading mite be a good idea...
Comment: As an experienced programmer learning postgresQL, I have not been at all impressed by the number of typos in this book, averaging at least one on each of the pages I have looked at in detail (at least the ones that are not just a virtual cut-and-paste of the online documentation), e.g:
eg. pg 245 - should be two single quote characters with raise notice, not one double quote
pg 246 - should be returns not return
pg 247 - need an extra end if with the else if, or to use elsif
... etc.
All seemingly trivial, but could waste lots of time for a novice programmer without ready access to the online documentation. The online documentation at postgresql.com is free and to me seems clear and largely free of typos. It seems to be a book one pays for needs to improve on this to be worth the money, whereas the mistakes in this book make it actually worse. Shame, as they may have crept in at the publishing stage and not be the author's fault.
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Title: PostgreSQL by Korry Douglas, Susan Douglas ISBN: 0735712573 Publisher: SAMS Pub. Date: 13 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: PostgreSQL Developer's Handbook by Ewald Geschwinde, Hans-Jüergen Schöenig ISBN: 0672322609 Publisher: SAMS Pub. Date: 18 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $44.99 |
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Title: Practical PostgreSQL (O'Reilly Unix) by Command Prompt Inc, John C. Worsley, Joshua D. Drake ISBN: 1565928466 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: January, 2002 List Price(USD): $44.95 |
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Title: PHP and PostgreSQL Advanced Web Programming by Ewald Geschwinde, Hans-Juergen Schoenig ISBN: 0672323826 Publisher: SAMS Pub. Date: 15 June, 2002 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: PostgreSQL: Introduction and Concepts by Bruce Momjian ISBN: 0201703319 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: 15 December, 2000 List Price(USD): $47.99 |
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