Commercial: New Book!! PostgreSQL book is released into the market
A Complete Guide to PostgreSQL (Redhat Database)
Second Edition (revised and enlarged and covers latest version of
PostgreSQL 7.1.3),
Published Jan 2002
Author: Al Dev
International Edition: The cost of the book is very minimal at about
$20.99.
Asian Economy Edition: For consumers in India, Bangladesh,
Bhutan, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Myanmar and
Thailand please click on the button which says Rs. 329.
You can also buy this book for Rs. 329 from
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branches
in every major Indian city.
The book is sold at http://www.aldev.8m.com
The first edition of this book (under different title) covered
PostgreSQL 6.1 and sold about 400,000 copies in USA/Canada. The
second edition is available for sale world-wide and translated version
in
Japanese and German will be available in near future.
Edition bound, paper back.
The book has 43 chapters and is about 550 pages.
Level: Intermediate to Advanced User.
About 40% of the book is generic and can be used for other databases
like MySQL, Oracle, MS SQL server and other 60% is specific to
PostgreSQL.
Books are immensely important for open-source projects like
PostgreSQL as they help the new & experienced users.
There are several books on PostgreSQL in the market
which directly and indirectly are helping the development of PostgreSQL.
PostgreSQL is a very sophisticated software and to use such
a sophisticated database, you need a book.
"A Complete Guide to PostgreSQL (Redhat Database)" is
a "must have" book as it is very difficult to use PostgreSQL without
this book. This book had evolved over a very long period of time.
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The Table of Contents are as follows:
Table Contents
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PART I
CHAPTER 1. Introduction
CHAPTER 2. Principles of Database Management
CHAPTER 3. PostgreSQL Solution
CHAPTER 4. Evaluation and Selection of SQL Servers
CHAPTER 5. PostgreSQL, Embedded Databases and LDAP
CHAPTER 6. The PostgreSQL Database Architecture
CHAPTER 7. The PostgreSQL Instance Architecture
CHAPTER 8. PostgreSQL Database Administration Overview
CHAPTER 9. PostgreSQL Quick Installation Instructions
CHAPTER 10. Quick Start Guide
CHAPTER 11. PostgreSQL Supports Extremely Large Databases greater than
500 Gig
CHAPTER 12. Setup accurate Time on a SQL Server
CHAPTER 13. Replication Management
PART II
CHAPTER 14. Object-Oriented Features
CHAPTER 15. Java Capabilities in PostgreSQL
CHAPTER 16. Performance Tuning of PostgreSQL Server
CHAPTER 17. Security Management
CHAPTER 18. Backup and Recovery
CHAPTER 19. PSQL Utility
CHAPTER 20. GUI FrontEnd Tool for PostgreSQL (Graphical User Interface)
CHAPTER 21. Interface Drivers for PostgreSQL
CHAPTER 22. Perl Database Interface Driver for PostgreSQL
CHAPTER 23. PostgreSQL Management Tools
PART III
CHAPTER 24. Web-Application-Servers for PostgreSQL
CHAPTER 25. Applications and Tools for PostgreSQL
CHAPTER 26. Database Design Tool - Entity Relation Diagram Tool
CHAPTER 27. Web Database Design/Implementation tool for PostgreSQL
CHAPTER 28. PHP Hypertext Preprocessor (Server-side HTML-embedded
scripting language)
CHAPTER 29. Web Gem package
CHAPTER 30. Python Interface for PostgreSQL
CHAPTER 31. Gateway between PostgreSQL and the WWW
CHAPTER 32. "C", "C++", ESQL/C language Interfaces and Bitwise Operators
for PostgreSQL
CHAPTER 33. Procedural Languages
PART IV
CHAPTER 34. Japanese Language Interface/Kanji Code for PostgreSQL, NLS
support
CHAPTER 35. PostgreSQL Port to Windows 95/Windows NT/2000/XP
CHAPTER 36. Mailing Lists
CHAPTER 37. Documentation and Reference Books
CHAPTER 38. Technical support for PostgreSQL
CHAPTER 39. Economic and Business Aspects
CHAPTER 40. FAQ - Questions on PostgreSQL
APPENDIX
41. APPENDIX A - SYNTAX OF ANSI/ISO SQL 1992, ANSI/ISO SQL 1998
42. APPENDIX B - SQL TUTORIAL FOR BEGINNERS
42.1 TUTORIAL FOR POSTGRESQL
42.2 INTERNET URL POINTERS
42.3 ON-LINE SQL TUTORIALS
43. APPENDIX C - MIDGARD INSTALLATION
43.1 SECURITY with OPENSSL
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