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* Request for PostgreSQL Resources and Documentation
@ 2024-12-03 11:54 Suat Mollasalihoglu <[email protected]>
  2024-12-03 19:30 ` Re: Request for PostgreSQL Resources and Documentation Steve Midgley <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread

From: Suat Mollasalihoglu @ 2024-12-03 11:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: [email protected]

Dear PostgreSQL Experts,

I hope this email finds you well. My name is [Your Name], and I am
currently working as a PostgreSQL Database Administrator at a company
developing financial software.

As part of my professional development, I am committed to mastering
PostgreSQL in all its intricacies. I would be deeply grateful if you could
share any resources, documentation, or recommendations that might help
deepen my understanding and skills with PostgreSQL.

If there are specific guides, best practices, or advanced topics you
believe would be particularly useful for someone in my field, I would be
thrilled to receive your suggestions.

Thank you in advance for your time and assistance. I truly appreciate the
wealth of knowledge shared by the PostgreSQL community and hope to
contribute back in the future.

Best regards,
Suat MOLLASALİHOĞLU


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* Re: Request for PostgreSQL Resources and Documentation
  2024-12-03 11:54 Request for PostgreSQL Resources and Documentation Suat Mollasalihoglu <[email protected]>
@ 2024-12-03 19:30 ` Steve Midgley <[email protected]>
  2024-12-04 06:40   ` Re: Request for PostgreSQL Resources and Documentation Andrew Cilia <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread

From: Steve Midgley @ 2024-12-03 19:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Suat Mollasalihoglu <[email protected]>; +Cc: [email protected]

On Tue, Dec 3, 2024 at 11:21 AM Suat Mollasalihoglu <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Dear PostgreSQL Experts,
>
> I hope this email finds you well. My name is [Your Name], and I am
> currently working as a PostgreSQL Database Administrator at a company
> developing financial software.
>
> As part of my professional development, I am committed to mastering
> PostgreSQL in all its intricacies. I would be deeply grateful if you could
> share any resources, documentation, or recommendations that might help
> deepen my understanding and skills with PostgreSQL.
>
> If there are specific guides, best practices, or advanced topics you
> believe would be particularly useful for someone in my field, I would be
> thrilled to receive your suggestions.
>
> Thank you in advance for your time and assistance. I truly appreciate the
> wealth of knowledge shared by the PostgreSQL community and hope to
> contribute back in the future.
>
> Best regards,
> Suat MOLLASALİHOĞLU
>
The documentation on the main site is spectacularly good, in my opinion:
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/index.html

My input for how to move forward with learning Pg:

   - Download the server and install it.
   - Pick some interesting data projects that you want to solve
   - Work through the docs to get your orientation
   - Use GPT4-o (or Claude 3.5 Sonnet) and Stackoverflow to help you figure
   out any details that you get stuck on
   - Use this list to get help when you can't move forward


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* Re: Request for PostgreSQL Resources and Documentation
  2024-12-03 11:54 Request for PostgreSQL Resources and Documentation Suat Mollasalihoglu <[email protected]>
  2024-12-03 19:30 ` Re: Request for PostgreSQL Resources and Documentation Steve Midgley <[email protected]>
@ 2024-12-04 06:40   ` Andrew Cilia <[email protected]>
  2024-12-04 08:04     ` Re: Request for PostgreSQL Resources and Documentation Suat Mollasalihoglu <[email protected]>
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread

From: Andrew Cilia @ 2024-12-04 06:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Steve Midgley <[email protected]>; Suat Mollasalihoglu <[email protected]>; +Cc: [email protected]

Continuing on from Steve's recommendations, I'd say install two instances so that you can practise
replication and manage it through pgadmin. No need for two machines. Just get them running off
different ports. It helped me a good deal when I sat for my certification.


On Tue, 2024-12-03 at 11:30 -0800, Steve Midgley wrote:
> 
> 
> On Tue, Dec 3, 2024 at 11:21 AM Suat Mollasalihoglu <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Dear PostgreSQL Experts,
> > I hope this email finds you well. My name is [Your Name], and I am currently working as a
> > PostgreSQL Database Administrator at a company developing financial software.
> > As part of my professional development, I am committed to mastering PostgreSQL in all its
> > intricacies. I would be deeply grateful if you could share any resources, documentation, or
> > recommendations that might help deepen my understanding and skills with PostgreSQL.
> > If there are specific guides, best practices, or advanced topics you believe would be
> > particularly useful for someone in my field, I would be thrilled to receive your suggestions.
> > Thank you in advance for your time and assistance. I truly appreciate the wealth of knowledge
> > shared by the PostgreSQL community and hope to contribute back in the future.
> > Best regards,
> > Suat MOLLASALİHOĞLU
> > 
> The documentation on the main site is spectacularly good, in my
> opinion: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/index.html
> 
> My input for how to move forward with learning Pg:
>  * Download the server and install it. 
>  * Pick some interesting data projects that you want to solve
>  * Work through the docs to get your orientation
>  * Use GPT4-o (or Claude 3.5 Sonnet) and Stackoverflow to help you figure out any details that you
>    get stuck on
>  * Use this list to get help when you can't move forward
> 



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* Re: Request for PostgreSQL Resources and Documentation
  2024-12-03 11:54 Request for PostgreSQL Resources and Documentation Suat Mollasalihoglu <[email protected]>
  2024-12-03 19:30 ` Re: Request for PostgreSQL Resources and Documentation Steve Midgley <[email protected]>
  2024-12-04 06:40   ` Re: Request for PostgreSQL Resources and Documentation Andrew Cilia <[email protected]>
@ 2024-12-04 08:04     ` Suat Mollasalihoglu <[email protected]>
  2024-12-04 14:19       ` Re: Request for PostgreSQL Resources and Documentation [email protected]
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread

From: Suat Mollasalihoglu @ 2024-12-04 08:04 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: [email protected]; +Cc: Steve Midgley <[email protected]>; [email protected]

Dear Steve and Andrew,

Thank you both for your detailed and insightful responses. I truly
appreciate the time you took to share your recommendations.

Your guidance is invaluable, and I’m excited to apply these suggestions to
deepen my PostgreSQL knowledge and skills.
Best regards,
Suat MOLLASALİHOĞLU


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* Re: Request for PostgreSQL Resources and Documentation
  2024-12-03 11:54 Request for PostgreSQL Resources and Documentation Suat Mollasalihoglu <[email protected]>
  2024-12-03 19:30 ` Re: Request for PostgreSQL Resources and Documentation Steve Midgley <[email protected]>
  2024-12-04 06:40   ` Re: Request for PostgreSQL Resources and Documentation Andrew Cilia <[email protected]>
  2024-12-04 08:04     ` Re: Request for PostgreSQL Resources and Documentation Suat Mollasalihoglu <[email protected]>
@ 2024-12-04 14:19       ` [email protected]
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread

From: [email protected] @ 2024-12-04 14:19 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: [email protected]


Suat Mollasalihoglu schrieb am 04.12.2024 um 09:04:
> Dear Steve and Andrew,
>
> Thank you both for your detailed and insightful responses. I truly appreciate the time you took to share your recommendations.
>
> Your guidance is invaluable, and I’m excited to apply these suggestions to deepen my PostgreSQL knowledge and skills.
>

The Postgres website also lists books and tutorials that are not part of the project itself:

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/books/
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/online-resources/









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