Transactions and Error Handling in PostgreSQL

This course is beneficial for anyone who needs to work with transactions and error handling in PostgreSQL, such as database administrators, software engineers, data developers, and analytics specialists.

This course covers topics such as single and multistatement transactions, the read committed isolation level, rolling back and savepoints, handling exceptions, and stacked diagnostics.

Transactions are used to ensure data consistency, provide protection to data operations in concurrent environments, and help make decisions based on correct data.

This course covers ways to handle various types of errors, including syntax errors, type errors, and unexpected errors.

Yes, DataCamp provides a Certificate of Completion after completing this course.

This course uses the FFEIC bank health data and a patient data table for practical exercises.

Concurrent data usage is important when dealing with transactions, since it affects the outcome of data operations. This course covers the considerations necessary to manage data isolation in concurrent environments.