Re: off topic PostgreSQL books / online training

+1

Unfortunately, due to the way licensing works in virtual environments, many are moving away from Oracle to PostgreSQL, it’s variants or nosql.

On Tue, 4 Feb 2020 at 8:25 AM, Mladen Gogala <gogala.mladen_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> There is an excellent online book here: http://www.interdb.jp/pg/
>
> You can download a some free books here:
> https://www.topfreebooks.org/tag/postgresql/
>
> For the newer releases, you can always buy "Mastering PostgreSQL 11" or
> "Mastering PostgreSQL 12" on Amazon. However, if your hope is to replace
> Oracle by PostgreSQL to reduce costs, forget it. Oracle is still much
> more capable and it's much easier to find programmers who know Oracle
> than programmers who know PostgreSQL. Unfortunately, no open source DB
> can adequately replace Oracle. There are other commercial databases,
> like DB2 and SQL Server, which can do that, but they are not free.
>
>
> On 2/3/20 5:54 PM, Vijay Sehgal wrote:
> > Dear Experts,
> >
> > Wanted to know if any of you has recommendations for books or online
> trainings to learn PostgreSQL, any authors in PostgreSQL world like
> Jonathan Lewis, Christian Antognini to name just few amongst many SME we
> have here.
> >
> > Thanks for your time.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Vijay Sehgal--
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> >
> >
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