# Mastering PostgreSQL in Application Development launches!

DevFeed: [Mastering PostgreSQL in Application Development launches!](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/mastering-postgresql-in-application-development-launches-34568.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://tapoueh.org/blog/2017/11/mastering-postgresql-in-application-development-launches/>)

Author: Dimitri Fontaine PostgreSQL Major Contributor; Author

Published: 2017-11-06T09:48:43Z

Content type: release

Language: en

Sources: [Dimitri Fontaine](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/dimitri-fontaine.md>)

Topics: [PostgreSQL](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/postgresql.md>), [SQL](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/sql.md>), [Application Development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/application-development.md>), [Development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/development.md>), [Programming](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/programming.md>)

Tags: [application-development](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/application-development.md>), [developers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/developers.md>), [development](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/development.md>), [how-to](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/how-to.md>), [postgresql](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/postgresql.md>), [sql](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/sql.md>)

## AI overview

The article announces the launch of Mastering PostgreSQL in Application Development, a book aimed at application developers who want to learn SQL. It explains SQL's declarative approach, query execution plans, and a top-N query example, and includes the book's table of contents.

## Source excerpt

Today is the day my book Mastering PostgreSQL in Application Development launches! I'm all excited that everybody interested is now able to actually read my book! Mastering PostgreSQL in Application Development targets application developers who want to learn SQL properly, and actually master this programming language. Most developers don't think of SQL as a programming language, mainly because they don't have full control of the execution plan of their queries. Buy it online! When using SQL, you don't get to write how to fetch the data you are interested in, your job is to describe the data set you need in the simplest possible way. Sometimes this is pretty easy: I want all the information we have in the table drivers about the driver whom driverid is 1 translates easily to