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The Babase Documentation

The Babase Pocket Reference is the place to go for diagrams
The Babase Technical Documentation
Overview of the Babase software project for the general public

Related Sites

Documentation on the software Babase uses

The PosgreSQL web site
Postgresql version 8.1 documentation
There are two complete on-line books on PostgreSQL. These include information on accessing the database using the psql Unix command.
- PostgreSQL: Introduction and Concepts
- Practical PostgreSQL
The Babase phpPgAdmin interface contains little question marks which are links to documentation
The phpPgAdmin web site
The phpPgAdmin documentation is geared to the system's administrator but may contain some useful information

Places to go for help

Babase users are encouraged to ask questions, both on the Babase mailing list and on the mailing lists setup for questions on the software which Babase is made of. The article How to Ask Questions the Smart Way provides good information on how to get answers when writing public mailing lists. When asking SQL related question it will almost certainly be a good idea to include a reference to http://papio.biology.duke.edu/pocket_reference.pdf and the entity-relationship diagrams contained therein.

For questions specific to babase write to the Babase mailing list or look through its associated archive to see if the question has not already been answered.

For questions about SQL there is PostgreSQL's mailing list for beginner's questions, PostgreSQL's mailing list for SQL questions, and the PostgreSQL general mailing list.

For questions on the Babase web interface, including how to submit SQL queries, download results, and so forth, there is the phpPgAdmin help forum.

Tips

Save your queries so you can re-run them later, need be. Put the really useful ones on this wiki.

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- * [http://papio.biology.duke.edu/pocket_reference.pdf The Babase Pocket Reference] is the place to go for diagrams
 * [http://papio.biology.duke.edu/babase_system_html The Babase Technical Documentation]
 * [:WhatIsBabase:Overview] of the Babase software project for the general public
+ * [[http://papio.biology.duke.edu/pocket_reference.pdf|The Babase Pocket Reference]] is the place to go for diagrams
 * [[http://papio.biology.duke.edu/babase_system_html|The Babase Technical Documentation]]
 * Overview of [[WhatIsBabase|the Babase software project]] for the general public
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- * [http://www.princeton.edu/%7Ebaboon/ The Amboseli Baboon Research Project]
 * [http://www.princeton.edu/~baboon/monitoring_guide.htm Amboseli Baboon Research Project Monitoring Guide]
+ * [[http://www.princeton.edu/%7Ebaboon/|The Amboseli Baboon Research Project]]
 * [[http://www.princeton.edu/~baboon/monitoring_guide.htm|Amboseli Baboon Research Project Monitoring Guide]]
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- * The [http://www.postgresql.org PosgreSQL] web site
 * Postgresql version 8.1 [http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/static/index.html documentation]
+ * The [[http://www.postgresql.org|PosgreSQL]] web site
 * Postgresql version 8.1 [[http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/static/index.html|documentation]]
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-  * [http://www.postgresql.org/docs/books/awbook.html PostgreSQL: Introduction and Concepts]
  * [http://www.faqs.org/docs/ppbook/book1.htm Practical PostgreSQL]
+  * [[http://www.postgresql.org/docs/books/awbook.html|PostgreSQL: Introduction and Concepts]]
  * [[http://www.faqs.org/docs/ppbook/book1.htm|Practical PostgreSQL]]
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- * The [http://phppgadmin.sourceforge.net/ phpPgAdmin] web site
 * The phpPgAdmin [http://phppgadmin.sourceforge.net/?page=faq documentation] is geared to the system's administrator but may contain some useful information
+ * The [[http://phppgadmin.sourceforge.net/|phpPgAdmin]] web site
 * The phpPgAdmin [[http://phppgadmin.sourceforge.net/?page=faq|documentation]] is geared to the system's administrator but may contain some useful information
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-Babase users are encouraged to ask questions, both on the Babase mailing list and on the mailing lists setup for questions on the software which Babase is made of.  The article [http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html How to Ask Questions the Smart Way] provides good information on how to get answers when writing public mailing lists.  When asking SQL related question it will almost certainly be a good idea to include a reference to http://papio.biology.duke.edu/pocket_reference.pdf and the entity-relationship diagrams contained therein.
+Babase users are encouraged to ask questions, both on the Babase mailing list and on the mailing lists setup for questions on the software which Babase is made of.  The article [[http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html|How to Ask Questions the Smart Way]] provides good information on how to get answers when writing public mailing lists.  When asking SQL related question it will almost certainly be a good idea to include a reference to http://papio.biology.duke.edu/pocket_reference.pdf and the entity-relationship diagrams contained therein.
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-For questions specific to babase write to the [:BabaseMailingLists:Babase mailing list] or look through its associated [http://www.eco.princeton.edu/pipermail/babase/ archive] to see if the question has not already been answered.
+For questions specific to babase write to the [[BabaseMailingLists|Babase mailing list]] or look through its associated [[http://www.eco.princeton.edu/pipermail/babase/|archive]] to see if the question has not already been answered.
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-For questions about SQL there is PostgreSQL's mailing list for [http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-novice/  beginner's questions], PostgreSQL's mailing list for [http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-sql/ SQL questions], and the PostgreSQL [http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/ general mailing list].
+For questions about SQL there is PostgreSQL's mailing list for [[http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-novice/|beginner's questions]], PostgreSQL's mailing list for [[http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-sql/|SQL questions]], and the PostgreSQL [[http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/|general mailing list]].
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-For questions on the Babase web interface, including how to submit SQL queries, download results, and so forth, there is the phpPgAdmin [http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=115884 help forum].
+For questions on the Babase web interface, including how to submit SQL queries, download results, and so forth, there is the phpPgAdmin [[http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=115884|help forum]].