About the Technical Reviewer
Josh Berkus is a “hacker emeritus” for the PostgreSQL Project, where he
served on the Core Team for 13 years. He was also a database consultant for
15 years,
working with PostgreSQL, MySQL, CitusDB, Redis, CouchDB,
Hadoop, and Microsoft SQL Server. Josh currently works as a Kubernetes
community manager at Red Hat, Inc.
BRIEF CONTENTS
Foreword
by Sarah Frostenson
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: Creating Your First Database and Table
Chapter 2: Beginning Data Exploration with SELECT
Chapter 3: Understanding Data Types
Chapter 4:
Importing and Exporting Data
Chapter 5: Basic Math and Stats with SQL
Chapter 6: Joining Tables in a Relational Database
Chapter 7: Table Design That Works for You
Chapter 8: Extracting Information
by Grouping and Summarizing
Chapter 9: Inspecting and Modifying Data
Chapter 10: Statistical Functions in SQL
Chapter 11: Working with Dates and Times
Chapter 12:
Advanced Query Techniques
Chapter 13: Mining Text to Find Meaningful Data
Chapter 14: Analyzing Spatial Data with PostGIS
Chapter 15: Saving Time with Views,
Functions, and Triggers
Chapter 16: Using PostgreSQL from the Command Line
Chapter 17: Maintaining Your Database
Chapter 18: Identifying and Telling
the Story Behind Your Data