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Do you have any examples of a good book that will take me from intermediate to advanced? Most of the guides I’ve found online either assume you’re an absolute beginner or already quite advanced. I’m quite competent with SQL and relational databases, but nearly all of my experience is on Microsoft SQL server. I’ve heard postgresql has a lot of really cool functionality but I would really love a nice, professional, in-depth book that will help me get fully up to speed.


I recommend watching Markus Winand on youtube. Eye-opening for me


Seconded. His book and blog (which is called something like “use the index, Luke”) are really good too.


Database Systems Concepts https://www.db-book.com/db7/index.html

Great book, that's the one that is also used in the reputable CMU Database Systems course, which you can also find on Youtube.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSE8ODhjZXjbohkNBWQs_...


I'll highly recommend "A Curious Moon" by Rob Conery [0].

In this book you'll load Cassini space mission data from NASA into Postgres and analyze one of the Saturn's moon. I learnt a lot about Postgres and also about satellite data.

[0] https://bigmachine.io/products/a-curious-moon/


Recommend ‘Designing data intensive applications’

https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/designing-data-intensiv...


This is a great book, but it's not a book on SQL.


My first day of Postgres experience is that the first query to fetch 1 record takes 5 seconds and subsequent queries take 50ms. There are a 1000 explanations as to why, but I have no idea which is correct. I hate Postgres. I heard it does JSON or something well.


This presentation will answer all your questions.

https://youtu.be/0cLIhoXjgDE

I love Postgres.


Some power tools take more than a day to learn. Deal with it if you need the power. If you don't need an RDBMS, don't use one.




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