Three years ago I was asked to create and deliver a two-day course introducing
SQL to Evergreen users. Things went well and I was able to share the resulting
materials with the Evergreen and PostgreSQL community. Perhaps one of my
happiest moments at the Evergreen conference last year was when one of the
participants in that course, told me that many of his fellow participants were
still successfully writing SQL queries and getting work done. Huzzah!
Time goes by and another group, OHIONET, was running into difficulties getting
started with PostgreSQL and Evergreen. They asked me if I would be
willing to give the same sort of training I had given a few years back. "Sure",
I said, thinking it would be a great opportunity to polish the materials and
add some updates to cover new features in PostgreSQL and Evergreen. We also
opted to skip the travel and do an entirely virtual training session via
Google Hangouts, which worked out rather nicely (but that's a different story).
As it turned out, I probably ended up putting about four days worth of effort
(crammed into lots of late nights, weekends, and vacation days) into
overhauling the instruction materials. But the results were worth it, in my
opinion; I'm rather proud of the content, and while I believe it stands up on
its own, the guidance that I was able to provide during the live instruction
sessions was well-received by the participants.
Thus, I am pleased to be able to offer to the broader community the latest
version of the Introduction to SQL for Evergreen Administrators, under a
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 (Unported) license.
So, a huge thanks to OHIONET for giving me the impetus to overhaul this
material, and for giving me a chance to introduce them to the wonders of
SQL with PostgreSQL, and to the inner workings of the Evergreen schema. It
was a blast! And thanks for agreeing to let me share these materials with the
broader community.
thank you.