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Korry Douglas, Susan Douglas
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Pages: 816 (Paperback)
ISBN: 0735712573
Pub: Sams
Pub date: 2003-02-25
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 603680
Reader Reviews:
Brilliant! (6/6 people found this helpful)
If you have to do any work involving postgres I cannot recommend this book highly enough!
As a 4th year software engineering student I found this book invaluable in completing my honours dissertation.
As the previous reviewer said, it is very well written and starts with the real basics through to the most complicated issues. However, each chapter is reasonably independent of the last, so it is very easy to jump around different parts of the book without getting lost.
In particular the chapters on accessing postgres using different programming languages such as C, java, and perl are entirely self-contained and are well explained using several examples.
In summary, this is a perfect book for beginners right through to experts, buy it now!
Very very good (17/17 people found this helpful)
It's a big book. In my experience that either means daunting, or brilliant. This is the latter. Very well written, everything's well explained, and it's easy to skip bits. I've been looking for a kick towards professional database design, (I'd call myself intermediate) from hacked db's in access and mysql - and this is it.
This would help a beginner, (except for the short section on installing it) get used to the basics of sql and databases in general, as well as providing a guide for practical, efficient / effective design. For the expert, this book seemingly covers every individual publicised feature of pgsql, and gives information on extending /customising postgresql from the source for ultimate performance etc.
Unlike my review, the book is extremely well written! Highly recommended. Especially for such a potentially complex topic.
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