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Spatial Data Management with PostgreSQL and PostGIS https://gishub.org/sdm

postgis

Spatial Data Management with PostgreSQL and PostGIS https://gishub.org/sdm

Sample Datasets

• https://github.com/giswqs/data
• cities.csv

Useful Resources

• https://www.w3schools.com/sql/default.asp

SQL Tutorial

Change column type

ALTER TABLE cities
ALTER COLUMN population TYPE INT
USING population::integer

SQL queries for non-spatial data

The examples below use the sample dataset - cities.csv

• SELECT * FROM cities
• SELECT * FROM cities LIMIT 10
• SELECT name, country FROM cities
• SELECT DISTINCT country FROM cities
• SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT country) FROM cities
• SELECT MAX(population) FROM cities
• SELECT SUM(population) FROM cities
• SELECT AVG(population) FROM cities
• SELECT * FROM cities ORDER BY country
• SELECT * FROM cities ORDER BY country ASC, population DESC
• SELECT * FROM cities WHERE country='USA'
• SELECT * FROM cities WHERE country='USA' OR country='CAN'
• SELECT * FROM cities WHERE country='USA' AND population>1000000
• SELECT * FROM cities WHERE country LIKE 'U%'
• SELECT * FROM cities WHERE country LIKE '%A'
• SELECT * FROM cities WHERE country LIKE '_S_'
• SELECT * FROM cities WHERE country IN ('USA', 'CAN', 'CHN')
• SELECT * FROM cities WHERE population BETWEEN 1000000 AND 10000000