Re: [GENERAL] Books

Thomas Løcke escribió: > Would I be supporting the PostgreSQL project by buying these, or are they > just a compilation of the online manuals, done by some random author calling > him-/herself "The PostgreSQL Global Development Group"? :o) If you really want to support the PostgreSQL project, yo

Re: [GENERAL] Books, the lulu.com scam

2009/11/22 Ivano Luberti > I read books about software products when I need to get introduced to > the whole picture: architecture, underlying technologies. > In this way I also understand what to search for when I need detailed > information or tip and tricks. > > > Well that's the problem i

Re: [GENERAL] Books, the lulu.com scam

I read books about software products when I need to get introduced to the whole picture: architecture, underlying technologies. In this way I also understand what to search for when I need detailed information or tip and tricks. Rikard Bosnjakovic ha scritto: > On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 18:10,

Re: [GENERAL] Books, the lulu.com scam

2009/11/21 Yordan Radunchev : > Postgre have such a great (and helpful and wiling to share knowledge) > community and great on-line documentation for free. +1 > Books (content) tent to get old and more useless with every Postgre > update. If some one offers a book with lifetime support meaning th

Re: [GENERAL] Books, the lulu.com scam

On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 18:10, Yordan Radunchev wrote: [...] > Why should one buy a book? Books are invaluable reading material when "number two" is due. Laptops and on line-documentation doesn't stand a chance in that particular case. Also, I prefer laying down in the sofa reading a book. Using

Re: [GENERAL] Books, the lulu.com scam

Thom Brown wrote: >> So I bought this "book" thinking it was a PDF file which I am fine with. >> Its not. They download an .acsm file that will only work with their >> proprietary Windoze software. >> I am really angry with lulu.com about this. > I'm not sure I understand the purpose of them p

Re: [GENERAL] Books, the lulu.com scam

On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 08:37:45AM -0700, Bill Todd wrote: > The Adobe ebook reader is available for Windows and Mac. I thought Adobe > offered a Linux version too but apparently not. It is not Lulu's fault that > Adobe does not offer a Linux version of the ebook reader. > > Bill > > Alan Grusko

Re: [GENERAL] Books, the lulu.com scam

It IS their fault that they're selling DM books -- plenty of other publishers (like the Pragmatic Programmers) seem to make a living without assuming that all of their customers are thieves. I bought a book from them assuming it would be a PDF & was furious when it was that adobe thing. It may have

Re: [GENERAL] Books, the lulu.com scam

The Adobe ebook reader is available for Windows and Mac. I thought Adobe offered a Linux version too but apparently not. It is not Lulu's fault that Adobe does not offer a Linux version of the ebook reader. Bill Alan Gruskoff wrote: So I bought this "book" thinking it was a PDF file which I a

Re: [GENERAL] Books, the lulu.com scam

2009/11/21 Alan Gruskoff > > So I bought this "book" thinking it was a PDF file which I am fine with. > > Its not. They download an .acsm file that will only work with their > proprietary Windoze software. > > I am really angry with lulu.com about this. > > - Alan Gruskoff > I'm not sure I unders

Re: [GENERAL] Books, the lulu.com scam

So I bought this "book" thinking it was a PDF file which I am fine with. Its not. They download an .acsm file that will only work with their proprietary Windoze software. I am really angry with lulu.com about this. - Alan Gruskoff On 11/20/2009 11:35 AM, Joshua D. Drake wrote: > On Thu, 2009-1

Re: [GENERAL] Books

On Thu, 2009-11-19 at 15:34 -0500, Chris Browne wrote: > thomas.granv...@gmail.com (Thomas Løcke) writes: > > There's a new series of PostgreSQL books available: > > > > PostgreSQL 8.4 Official Documentation - Volume I > > PostgreSQL 8.4 Official Documentation - Volume II > > > > And so on, up to v

Re: [GENERAL] Books

Thomas Løcke wrote: Would I be supporting the PostgreSQL project by buying these, or are they just a compilation of the online manuals, done by some random author calling him-/herself "The PostgreSQL Global Development Group"? :o) They're a printout of the manuals that come with the database

Re: [GENERAL] Books

thomas.granv...@gmail.com (Thomas Løcke) writes: > There's a new series of PostgreSQL books available: > > PostgreSQL 8.4 Official Documentation - Volume I > PostgreSQL 8.4 Official Documentation - Volume II > > And so on, up to volume V I think. > > Would I be supporting the PostgreSQL project by

[GENERAL] Books

Hey all, There's a new series of PostgreSQL books available: PostgreSQL 8.4 Official Documentation - Volume I PostgreSQL 8.4 Official Documentation - Volume II

Re: [GENERAL] Books for experienced DB developer

Tino, Multiple recordsets means returning multiple setof results, not just one. As an example in a SQL Server Stored Procedure you can have the following in the same stored procedure: create proc getdata as select * from table1 select * from table2 go and it will return 2 resultsets. This is not p

Re: [GENERAL] Books for experienced developers

Postgresql introductions and concepts by bruce momijan isn't bad, though it is severely out of date, but most of the concepts of postgresql have stayed the same, the text will not provide you with any how-tos for the newer functionality, though it should help you make the conceptual switch to postg

Re: [GENERAL] Books for experienced developers

Craig Bryden wrote [01/07/05 3:46 AM]: Hi I have vast experience working with MS-SQL. Which books would be good for me to use in order to teach myself PostgreSQL? I need to migrate a MS-SQL Db to PostgreSQL. It contains tablers,views,stored procs, and user defined functions. With no other RDBMS

Re: [GENERAL] Books for experienced DB developer

On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 12:20:13PM +0100, Tino Wildenhain wrote: > Nevertheless you should be able to return 3 cursors you > define in your stored function and use them afterwards. A function can also return SETOF RECORD. However, a query calling such a function would need to provide a column de

Re: [GENERAL] Books for experienced DB developer

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Michael Fuhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Craig Bryden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Books for experienced DB developer Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 02:58:29 -0700 On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 11:33:52AM +0200, Craig Bryden wrote: > I am a very experience

Re: [GENERAL] Books for experienced DB developer

Craig Bryden wrote: Hi I am a very experienced MS-SQL developer. I am looking to port a database to PostgreSQL. Which books that are available would be ideal for someone who is already an experienced DB developer? If you are experienced, I'd say you'd save yourself some cash and be perfectly fin

Re: [GENERAL] Books for experienced DB developer

On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 12:17 +0100, Patrick FICHE wrote: > No, this is only one result-set. > MS SQL Server is able to return multiple result-set. > > For example, one SQL Server function can return the result of the following > queries : > SELECT * FROM Table1 > SELECT * FROM Table2 > SELECT * FRO

Re: [GENERAL] Books for experienced DB developer

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Re: [GENERAL] Books for experienced DB developer

08 To: Patrick FICHE Cc: Craig Bryden; pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: RE: [GENERAL] Books for experienced DB developer On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 11:56 +0100, Patrick FICHE wrote: > I'm afraid this is still a problem. > From my knowledge, Postgres function is able to return a single result-se

Re: [GENERAL] Books for experienced DB developer

On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 11:56 +0100, Patrick FICHE wrote: > I'm afraid this is still a problem. > From my knowledge, Postgres function is able to return a single result-set > not multiple. > I may have missed some facility... see http://techdocs.postgresql.org/guides/SetReturningFunctions or http:

Re: [GENERAL] Books for experienced DB developer

FICHE Cc: Craig Bryden; pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Books for experienced DB developer On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 11:25 +0100, Patrick FICHE wrote: > Hi Craig, > > 2 years ago, I had to do some porting from MS SQL to Postgres. > All the application logic was coded

Re: [GENERAL] Books for experienced DB developer

On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 11:25 +0100, Patrick FICHE wrote: > Hi Craig, > > 2 years ago, I had to do some porting from MS SQL to Postgres. > All the application logic was coded in stored procedures... > > The major problem I was faced to, was to port procedures returning multiple > result-sets... At

Re: [GENERAL] Books for experienced DB developer

ECTED] Behalf Of Craig Bryden Sent: vendredi 7 janvier 2005 11:04 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Books for experienced DB developer Hi Michael I am having some problems porting my Stored Procedures. I am using the pl/pgsql language. Instead of irrit

Re: [GENERAL] Books for experienced DB developer

too much time explaining RDBMS basics. Thanks Craig From: Michael Fuhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Craig Bryden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Books for experienced DB developer Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 02:58:29 -0700 On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 11:3

Re: [GENERAL] Books for experienced DB developer

On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 11:33:52AM +0200, Craig Bryden wrote: > I am a very experienced MS-SQL developer. I am looking to port a database > to PostgreSQL. Which books that are available would be ideal for someone > who is already an experienced DB developer? PostgreSQL has good documentation so

[GENERAL] Books for experienced developers

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[GENERAL] Books for experienced DB developer

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Re: [GENERAL] books/sites for someone really learning PG's advanced

Miles Keaton wrote: I'm switching to PostgreSQL from MySQL. Using the SAMs book called PostgreSQL which has been great to skim the surface of the differerences. I had never even heard of things like triggers, views, and foreign keys before. Any recommended books or websites (or exercises) that wou

[GENERAL] books/sites for someone really learning PG's advanced features?

I'm switching to PostgreSQL from MySQL. Using the SAMs book called PostgreSQL which has been great to skim the surface of the differerences. I had never even heard of things like triggers, views, and foreign keys before. Any recommended books or websites (or exercises) that would really help som

Re: [GENERAL] Books for PostgreSQL?

As the co-author of Practical PostgreSQL: Yes Pratical PostgreSQL 2E is on the way. It will cover 7.4. It WILL NOT BE OUT NEXT MONTH. It will probably be out in mid-winter. Sincerely, Joshua Drake Martin Marques wrote: El Jue 28 Ago 2003 10:26, Benjamin Jury escribió: The only

Re: [GENERAL] Books for PostgreSQL?

On Thursday, August 28, 2003, at 08:58 AM, Dennis Gearon wrote: Heath Tanner wrote: Not to take anything away from the books on the topic, but my favorite source is the docs that got installed with postgres (/usr/local/pgsql/doc/html). The index isn't great, but easily overcome: grep -i "sear

Re: [GENERAL] Books for PostgreSQL?

Benjamin Jury wrote: The only problem with 'Practical PostgreSQL' is that it is rather out of date. True, there have been many new features, however you can't say its beyond usefullness now. A new person to PostgreSQL can look at it online, check it out at the library, pick it up new/used... and

Re: [GENERAL] Books for PostgreSQL?

On 28 Aug 2003 at 7:55, Chris Webster wrote: > > Not to take anything away from the books on the topic, but my favorite > > source is the docs that got installed with postgres > > (/usr/local/pgsql/doc/html). > > > > The index isn't great, but easily overcome: > > grep -i "search phrase" /usr/lo

Re: [GENERAL] Books for PostgreSQL?

Heath Tanner wrote: Not to take anything away from the books on the topic, but my favorite source is the docs that got installed with postgres (/usr/local/pgsql/doc/html). The index isn't great, but easily overcome: grep -i "search phrase" /usr/local/pgsql/doc/html/* | less Try to do that with

Re: [GENERAL] Books for PostgreSQL?

Not to take anything away from the books on the topic, but my favorite source is the docs that got installed with postgres (/usr/local/pgsql/doc/html). The index isn't great, but easily overcome: grep -i "search phrase" /usr/local/pgsql/doc/html/* | less Try to do that with a book. :-) When I c

Re: [GENERAL] Books for PostgreSQL?

El Jue 28 Ago 2003 10:26, Benjamin Jury escribió: > The only problem with 'Practical PostgreSQL' is that it is rather out of > date. Not exactly. Yesterday a friend told me that a new edition of the book was coming out this month, which should cover up to 7.3, or even 7.4 features. Any way, I wa

Re: [GENERAL] Books for PostgreSQL?

Not to take anything away from the books on the topic, but my favorite source is the docs that got installed with postgres (/usr/local/pgsql/doc/html). The index isn't great, but easily overcome: grep -i "search phrase" /usr/local/pgsql/doc/html/* | less Try to do that with a book. :-) When I c

Re: [GENERAL] Books for PostgreSQL?

You could try postgres documentation at http://www.postgresql.org/docs/ or there is an online book titled 'PostgreSQL: Introduction and Concepts' at http://candle.pha.pa.us/main/writings/computer.html G Lam wrote: Hi, I have some experience in MS Access 97 and 2000 and did write some application

Re: [GENERAL] Books for PostgreSQL?

On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 22:13, G Lam wrote: > Hi, I have some experience in MS Access 97 and 2000 and did write some > application with them. Now, I want to learn PostgreSQL. I installed it on a > RH8.0 server. Which books would you guys recommand? As important as the book: what version are you usin

Re: [GENERAL] Books for PostgreSQL?

I'll second the usefulness of Bruce's book. I still refer to it years after buying it. I'd highly recommend either of the two books out by Sams with by Hans and Ewald. Both very good good books. One is just purely Postgresql, the other is a PHP/Postgresql book. On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, Christ

Re: [GENERAL] Books for PostgreSQL?

Hi, I have some experience in MS Access 97 and 2000 and did write some application with them. Now, I want to learn PostgreSQL. I installed it on a RH8.0 server. Which books would you guys recommand? Well, I'm a little biased because I work at the author's shop :), but I use Practical PostgreSQL f

Re: [GENERAL] Books for PostgreSQL?

G Lam wrote: Hi, I have some experience in MS Access 97 and 2000 and did write some application with them. Now, I want to learn PostgreSQL. I installed it on a RH8.0 server. Which books would you guys recommand? Thank you. Gary ---(end of broadcast)---

Re: [GENERAL] Books on PostgreSQL?

Ian Harding wrote: > I just got my copy of the programmers guide yesterday. > It is a printed copy of the document of the same name available online. > It is worth the money because you can read it in the bathroom, and because > hopefully Thomas Lochart (sic) gets some money. I found mysel