Terms starting with P

6 terms in Databases

  • Partitioning

    Databases › Performance

    Partitioning splits a large database table into smaller physical pieces by a key, so queries and maintenance touch only the relevant part.

  • pg_dump

    Databases › Backup & recovery

    pg_dump is the PostgreSQL utility that creates a consistent logical backup of one database as an SQL script or an archive restorable…

  • Point-in-time recovery

    Databases › Backup & recovery

    Point-in-time recovery restores a database to its exact state at a chosen moment by replaying transaction logs on top of an earlier…

  • PostgreSQL

    Databases › Database systems

    PostgreSQL is an open-source object-relational database system known for strict SQL compliance, MVCC concurrency, rich data types and extensibility.

  • Primary key

    Databases › Database fundamentals

    A primary key is the column or set of columns that uniquely identifies each row in a database table and cannot contain…

  • Primary-replica

    Databases › Replication

    Primary-replica is a database replication model in which one primary server accepts all writes and streams its changes to read-only replica copies.