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Learning PostgreSQL 11 - Third Edition
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Learning PostgreSQL 11 - Third Edition

by Christopher Travers, Andrey Volkov
January 2019
Beginner
556 pages
14h 19m
English
Packt Publishing
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PostgreSQL Advanced Building Blocks

This chapter will introduce the remainder of the PostgreSQL building blocks, including views, indexes, functions, triggers, and rules. In addition to that, the web car portal schema will be revised. Several Data Definition Language (DDL) commands, such as CREATE and ALTER, will also be introduced. Since the lexical structure and several Data Manipulation Language (DML) commands haven't been introduced yet, we will try to use simple DML commands.

In this chapter, the following topics will be covered:

  • Views: Views are an important part of database modeling because they act as an interface or as an abstraction layer. The Views section will cover view synopsis and usages, and an updatable view example will ...
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