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‫So you may be asking yourself, what tools are we going to use during the school course?

‫Well, it is pretty simple for the course, we will be focusing on the most popular relational database

‫software in the market, PostgreSQL, and we will be using an open source software that is cross platform

‫called Valentina DBE.

‫And it is a UI that is used to manage PostgreSQL.

‫And the reason we're using these two free tools is because they are extremely popular and you will also

‫see them in production environments.

‫People use them all over the world and they have proven track records.

‫Now, in terms of if you have a favorite software to use to use with PostgreSQL, I suggest you go ahead

‫and use that if you want.

‫But for the intents and purposes of this course, I will be doing the majority of the querying and tooling

‫with Valentina DB.

‫So if you want to follow along properly, download the software and learn the tips and tricks.

‫Now again to deeper dive into why PostgreSQL, it is widely, widely adopted.

‫You'll see it everywhere.

‫You'll see cloud service providers use it like us, Google, Microsoft, all of their clouds offer you

‫the ability to use PostgreSQL.

‫Now, we could have gone with Oracle, we could have gone with Microsoft.

‫And to an extent, those service offerings offer you different features.

‫But to keep it open source and to keep it light and easy, we wanted to give you the opportunity to

‫utilize a very highly respected and widely used tool, which is Posterous.

‫So now that we know all of that and now that we know why we're using it, let's get into the installation

‫in the setup.