Big Nerd Ranch Announces April PostgreSQL Bootcamp

link to release: 
http://www.bignerdranch.com/about/postgresql0405pr.shtml

Big Nerd Ranch Announces PostgreSQL Bootcamp April 18-22, 2005

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT:
Emily Herman
Big Nerd Ranch, Inc.
(678) 595-6773
www.bignerdranch.com

Atlanta, GA - February 16, 2005 - Tulips, Daisies, and PostgreSQL 
Bootcamp Popping Up April 2005

  Big Nerd Ranch announces the next date for the popular PostgreSQL 
Bootcamp - April 18-22, 2005. Developers and database administrators 
who have been looking to expand their skills into this rapidly growing 
arena have another opportunity to get on board. PostgreSQL, a highly 
adaptable and scalable database solution is proving to be one of the 
most sought-after applications for database management. Flexible, 
robust and highly stable, PostgreSQL provides a low-cost and portable 
alternative to Oracle and SQL Server. Administrators, developers and 
project managers alike praise its ability to meet the needs of a wide 
range of industries; from accounting to medical records to e-business 
and customer relationship management.

The five-day bootcamp charts an intensive course through the most 
sophisticated open-source database available, navigating SQL 
constructs, subselects, transactions, triggers and user-defined types 
and functions.

  Topics include:
	• 	 building and installing PostgreSQL
	• 	configuring starting and stopping the server
	• 	creating a cluster with initdb, databases and schemas
	• 	users, access control, security and OpenSSL
	• 	queries, transactions, objects, optimization, data types and table 
constraints
	• 	monitoring and backups

The course has been widely praised for its exhaustive overview of the 
ins and outs of PostgreSQL programming. Students leaving the class not 
only carry away a hard copy and CD of documentation and lessons, but a 
wealth of information that helps students leap dramatically over the 
standard learning curve. Doug Hall, in his review in Linux Journal, 
praised the course for guiding students step-by-step through the 
lessons, putting information into praxis with a tightly integrated 
combination of lecture and hands-on practice problems to review the 
lesson.

  Bootcamp instructor, Chris Campbell, brings a wealth of experience and 
curriculum development to the course, providing an array of materials 
to help the student learn, from two course manuals, slides, and photos. 
"We believe in structuring the class to be a building-block approach to 
learning, where each lesson builds on what was learned in the previous 
lesson. You're building complex and sophisticated relational databases 
by the end of the week," said Campbell.

  For a complete syllabus of the bootcamp, please visit 
http://www.bignerdranch.com/classes/postgresql.shtml.

  The Big Nerd Ranch incorporates intensive training classes for Unix 
and Mac OS X programmers in a retreat setting outside Atlanta, GA. 
Class price of $3500 includes lodging, all meals, original instruction 
materials, 24-hour lab access, and transportation to and from the 
Atlanta airport. Students are encouraged to bring independent projects 
to class, allowing for input from classmates and individual instructor 
attention. For more information, call 678-595-6773 or visit  
www.bignerdranch.com.

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