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  • Refresh Materialized View Concurrently Performance Effect

    Hello! It is a very common question, what is refresh materialized view concurrently performance effect? Let’s try to answer this question. What is a Materialized View? Let’s start with view. A view is a logical structure to gather data from different tables and return them as a virtual table. As said, a virtual table, which…

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  • How to Create Tablespace in PostgreSQL

    In this article I’ll show you how to create tablespace in PostgreSQL using PosgtreSQL CREATE TABLESPACE statement. What is a PostgreSQL tablespace? Tablespace is common term for database engines. A tablespace is a physical location to store data. A database can have multiple tablespaces. By default, each PostgreSQL database has two tablespaces: Where to Use…

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  • pg_cron extension is one of the most important extension for DWH and ETL, in this article I will show you how to install pg_cron extension topic. pg_cron is an open source extension, you can find more information from their github page. This extension is used to schedule jobs on database level, instead of using operating…

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  • How to Create Foreign Key PostgreSQL

    Hello! I will cover How to Create Foreign Key PostgreSQL topic in this article. How to Create Foreign Key PostgreSQL What is a Foreign Key Also known as foreign constraint. Foreign keys are used to maintain referential integrity of data. Explaining this with an example would be simpler. For instance we are designing an e-commerce…

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  • Hello! Our beginner PostgreSQL administrator series are going on! In this article i am going to cover how to create PostgreSQL database in dbeaver question. There are other options to create a database in Postgresql, such as using PgAdmin or command line. PosgreSQL in Dbeaver In my previous article i am covered how to connect…

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  • Most of us use docker for day to day development tasks. Docker can be useful but problematic for beginners. Today we are going to discuss how to connect docker PostgreSql database. In this article I will use dbeaver as the database client. If you didn’t hear about dbeaver before it is an open source database…

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  • How to Terminate a PostgreSQL Session?

    During day to day operation of PostgreSQL database administrator we may need to terminate a PostgreSQL session, in this article we are going to cover how to terminate a PostgreSQL session. What is a PostgreSQL Session? I would like to have a brief introduction of the terminology here, because in each database engine, name of…

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  • How to Make Case Insensitive Query in PostgreSQL

    Hello, today we are going to cover how to make case insensitive query in PostgreSQL topic. Important Note for How to Make Case Insensitive Query in PostgreSQL Before starting i would like to highlight, charset and collation is the biggest limitation for case insensitive queries in PostgreSQL. For instance, in Turkish (Latin) alphabet i letter…

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  • Where Does PostgreSQL Store Configuration Files?

    PostgreSQL’s file structure is complicated and a database engine consists of multiple configuration files. Where Does PostgreSQL Store Configuration Files? You can use following command to find PostgreSQL configuration files? The command above shows the configuration file and where does postgresql store configuration files. As an alternative you can locate configuration file from shell and…

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  • List Tables in a PostgreSQL Schema

    For some cases, you might need to list tables in a PostgreSQL Schema. When you take control of a new environment, you should try to understand tables, schemas, triggers and objects defined in that new environment. After this discovery phase you can start working on this environment. Listing tables in specific schemas is also part…

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