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    • Hands-On: Learn PostgreSQL

    Learn PostgreSQL through hands-on coding exercises. Practice what you learn with interactive challenges designed for every level.

    About This Course

    PostgreSQL is by far the most popular database according to the latest StackOverflow annual survey, and for good reason. It is free, open source, and extremely powerful, powering millions of websites and services. In fact, it is what we use here at Dometrain to achieve incredible database performance with amazing feature flexibility. This hands-on lab course will teach you PostgreSQL from scratch, all the way to some of its more advanced features, by having you complete exercises on our PostgreSQL web editor with explanations and AI-assisted learning.

    Course Curriculum

    17h 4m 26 sections
    Your First SELECT
    05:00
    Selecting Specific Columns
    05:00
    Column Aliases with AS
    05:00
    Expressions in SELECT
    05:00
    DISTINCT Values
    05:00
    Comments in SQL
    05:00
    Basic WHERE Clause
    05:00
    Comparison Operators
    05:00
    AND Operator
    05:00
    OR Operator
    05:00
    NOT Operator
    05:00
    Combining AND, OR, NOT
    05:00
    BETWEEN Operator
    05:00
    IN Operator
    05:00
    LIKE Pattern Matching
    05:00
    ILIKE Case-Insensitive Matching
    05:00
    IS NULL and IS NOT NULL
    05:00
    ORDER BY Basics
    05:00
    Descending Order
    05:00
    Sorting by Multiple Columns
    05:00
    LIMIT Clause
    05:00
    OFFSET for Pagination
    05:00
    FETCH FIRST Syntax
    05:00
    NULLS FIRST and NULLS LAST
    05:00
    COUNT Function
    05:00
    COUNT DISTINCT
    05:00
    SUM Function
    05:00
    AVG Function
    05:00
    MIN and MAX Functions
    05:00
    Combining Aggregates
    05:00
    Basic GROUP BY
    05:00
    GROUP BY Multiple Columns
    05:00
    Aggregate with GROUP BY
    05:00
    HAVING Clause
    05:00
    WHERE vs HAVING
    05:00
    GROUP BY with Expressions
    05:00
    Understanding Table Relationships
    06:00
    INNER JOIN Basics
    06:00
    Table Aliases in JOINs
    06:00
    Joining on Multiple Conditions
    06:00
    Self JOINs
    06:00
    LEFT JOIN
    06:00
    RIGHT JOIN
    06:00
    FULL OUTER JOIN
    06:00
    CROSS JOIN
    06:00
    Joining Multiple Tables
    06:00
    NATURAL JOIN
    06:00
    USING Clause
    06:00
    UNION
    05:00
    UNION ALL
    05:00
    INTERSECT
    06:00
    EXCEPT
    06:00
    Basic INSERT
    05:00
    INSERT with Default Values
    06:00
    INSERT Multiple Rows
    05:00
    INSERT with SELECT
    06:40
    INSERT with RETURNING
    06:00
    ON CONFLICT (Upsert)
    05:00
    Basic UPDATE
    05:00
    UPDATE Multiple Columns
    06:00
    UPDATE with Expressions
    06:00
    UPDATE with Subquery
    06:00
    UPDATE with FROM
    06:00
    UPDATE with RETURNING
    06:00
    Basic DELETE
    05:00
    DELETE with Subquery
    06:00
    DELETE with USING
    06:00
    DELETE with RETURNING
    06:00
    TRUNCATE
    05:00
    UPPER and LOWER
    05:00
    LENGTH and CHAR_LENGTH
    06:00
    TRIM, LTRIM, RTRIM
    06:00
    SUBSTRING
    05:00
    CONCAT and ||
    05:00
    REPLACE
    05:00
    SPLIT_PART
    05:00
    POSITION and STRPOS
    06:00
    Regular Expressions
    06:00
    ROUND and TRUNC
    06:00
    CEIL and FLOOR
    06:00
    ABS and SIGN
    06:00
    POWER and SQRT
    06:00
    MOD and Integer Division
    06:00
    RANDOM
    05:00
    CURRENT_DATE and CURRENT_TIMESTAMP
    05:00
    Date Formatting with TO_CHAR
    06:00
    EXTRACT Function
    06:00
    DATE_PART Function
    06:00
    Date Arithmetic
    06:00
    DATE_TRUNC
    06:00
    AGE Function
    06:00
    Working with Time Zones
    06:00
    CASE Expressions
    06:00
    CASE in Aggregations
    06:00
    COALESCE Function
    06:00
    NULLIF Function
    06:00
    GREATEST and LEAST
    06:00
    Subquery in WHERE
    06:00
    IN with Subquery
    06:00
    EXISTS Operator
    06:00
    NOT EXISTS
    06:00
    Subquery in SELECT
    06:00
    Subquery in FROM (Derived Tables)
    06:00
    Correlated Subqueries
    06:00
    ANY and ALL Operators
    06:00
    Basic CTE with WITH
    06:00
    Multiple CTEs
    06:00
    CTE Referencing CTE
    06:40
    Recursive CTEs
    06:00
    Recursive CTE for Series
    06:40
    CTE with DML (Data Modifying CTEs)
    10:00
    Integer Types
    05:00
    Numeric and Decimal
    05:00
    Text Types
    05:00
    Boolean Type
    05:00
    Date and Time Types
    05:00
    UUID Type
    05:00
    JSON and JSONB
    06:40
    Array Types
    06:40
    ENUM Types
    06:40
    CREATE TABLE Basics
    05:00
    PRIMARY KEY Constraint
    05:00
    SERIAL and IDENTITY
    05:00
    NOT NULL Constraint
    05:00
    UNIQUE Constraint
    05:00
    CHECK Constraint
    06:00
    DEFAULT Values
    06:00
    FOREIGN KEY Constraint
    06:00
    ALTER TABLE Add Column
    06:00
    ALTER TABLE Modify Column
    06:00
    ALTER TABLE Drop Column
    06:00
    Renaming Tables and Columns
    06:00
    DROP TABLE
    06:00
    TRUNCATE vs DELETE
    06:00
    Understanding Indexes
    06:40
    CREATE INDEX
    05:00
    Unique Indexes
    06:00
    Composite Indexes
    06:00
    Partial Indexes
    06:00
    Expression Indexes
    06:40
    Index Types (B-tree, Hash, GIN, GiST)
    06:40
    DROP INDEX
    06:00
    EXPLAIN Basics
    06:00
    EXPLAIN ANALYZE
    06:00
    Understanding Scan Types
    06:40
    Join Algorithms
    06:40
    ROW_NUMBER
    05:00
    RANK and DENSE_RANK
    08:20
    OVER with ORDER BY
    06:40
    PARTITION BY
    06:40
    LAG and LEAD
    06:40
    FIRST_VALUE and LAST_VALUE
    08:20
    NTH_VALUE
    06:00
    Aggregate Window Functions
    07:00
    Window Frame Clauses
    06:40
    Creating Views
    06:40
    Using Views
    07:00
    Modifying Views
    07:30
    Dropping Views
    07:00
    Materialized Views
    07:00
    Refreshing Materialized Views
    06:40
    Understanding Transactions
    08:20
    BEGIN, COMMIT, ROLLBACK
    10:00
    SAVEPOINT
    07:00
    Transaction Isolation Levels
    07:30
    JSONB Operators
    10:00
    JSONB Indexing
    08:20
    Array Functions
    10:00
    Lateral Joins
    08:20
    GENERATE_SERIES
    08:20
    String Aggregation
    08:20
    Full-Text Search Basics
    10:00

    Course Details

    Level Hands-On
    Duration 17h 4m
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    Meet Your Instructor

    Nick Chapsas

    Nick Chapsas

    Nick Chapsas is a .NET & C# content creator, educator and a Microsoft MVP for Developer Technologies with years of experience in Software Engineering and Engineering Management.

    He has worked for some of the biggest companies in the world, building systems that served millions of users and tens of thousands of requests per second.

    Nick creates free content on YouTube and is the host of the Keep Coding Podcast.

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