My favorite ways to learn more about PostgreSQL with Grant Fritchey and Ryan Booz
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Everyone learns differently. Grant Fritchey and Ryan Booz, database advocates at Redgate focusing on PostgreSQL, talk with co-hosts Claire Giordano and Pino de Candia to explore the learning resources available to developers and users in all the corners of the PostgreSQL world. What drives you to learn: need or curiosity? What can podcasts teach us while we bike to work? Are conference talks good for growing skills, or are they better for networking? What about books? And do older books still have much to offer? It turns out, most people need much more than one approach to build their knowledge.  Some of the (many) links shared in the order they were mentioned:  Talk: Ryan’s talk Point-in-time query tuning and observability with pg_stat_statements at Citus Con: An Event for Postgres 2022 Blog: Learning PostgreSQL with Grant, a series for SQL Server devs learning about Postgres   Podcast: postgres.fm, a weekly podcast about all things Postgres  Podcast: Path To Citus Con Episode 01: Working in public on open source Blog aggregator: Planet PostgreSQL  Email Newsletters: Cooperpress, including the Postgres Weekly email  Podcast: Scaling PostgreSQL with Creston Jamison  User Groups: PostgreSQL Community User Groups  Videos: pganalyze "5 minutes of Postgres," by Lukas Fittl  Book: The Art of PostgreSQL, by Dimitri Fontaine  Book: PostgreSQL Query Optimization: The Ultimate Guide to Building Efficient Queries, by Henrietta Dombrovskaya  Book: SQL Performance Explained, by Markus Winand  Blog: Modern SQL, by Markus Winand Blog: Use The Index, Luke, by Markus Winand Book: Database Administration, by Craig Mullins  Book: A Curious Moon, by Rob Conery  Book: The Little SQL Book, by Rob Conery, “Learn SQL While Watching Football This Weekend - Free!”  Event: PGDay Chicago  Blog: Redgate – Simple Talk  Videos: CMU Database Group’s Talks on YouTube: Quarantine (2020), First Dose (2021), Second Dose (2021),  Booster (2022)  Crunchy Data’s Postgres Playground  Blog: CYBERTEC  Blog: Citus Open Source Blog  Talk: How To Make Your Postgres Blog Posts Reach A Ton More People, by Claire Giordano Conference: PGCon 2023, super useful to watch recorded talks after the fact  Conference: PGConf.EU, 2022, good example of an in-person event with lots of opportunities for learning  Conference: Citus Con: An Event for Postgres 2023  Conference: PGConf NYC 2023  Blog Series: PGSQL Phriday, created by Ryan Booz Blog Series: PostgreSQL Person of the Week, by Andreas Scherbaum  Blog: Robert Haas' blog Blog: select * from depesz; Book: PostgreSQL 14 internals, by Egor Rogov
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