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This repository contains multiple SQL projects. Current subprojects:

• deforestation_exploration/ – Udacity deforestation analysis (see that folder’s README for details).
• social_news_aggregator/ – Udiddit schema redesign, migration, and validation.

Social News Aggregator (Udiddit)

Key files:

• social_news_aggregator/instructions.md – full project write-up, DDL/DML, rubric notes, optional DQL.
• social_news_aggregator/schema.sql – normalized 5-table schema with constraints and indexes.
• social_news_aggregator/migration.sql – data migration from bad_posts/bad_comments.
• social_news_aggregator/validation_queries.sql – helper queries for checks and sample DQL.
• social_news_aggregator/bad-db.sql – source data (bad schema).

Run locally with Docker (Postgres 15)

docker context use desktop-linux    # if using Docker Desktop on Windows/WSL
docker run --name udiddit-pg -e POSTGRES_PASSWORD=password -e POSTGRES_USER=udiddit -e POSTGRES_DB=udiddit -p 55432:5432 -d postgres:15

Load bad data then migrate

# load source
docker cp social_news_aggregator/bad-db.sql udiddit-pg:/tmp/
docker exec -i udiddit-pg psql -U udiddit -d udiddit -f /tmp/bad-db.sql

# create normalized schema
docker cp social_news_aggregator/schema.sql udiddit-pg:/tmp/
docker exec -i udiddit-pg psql -U udiddit -d udiddit -f /tmp/schema.sql

# migrate data (truncate first only if re-running)
docker cp social_news_aggregator/migration.sql udiddit-pg:/tmp/
docker exec -i udiddit-pg psql -U udiddit -d udiddit -f /tmp/migration.sql

Quick validation

docker exec udiddit-pg psql -U udiddit -d udiddit -c "SELECT count(*) FROM users;"
docker exec udiddit-pg psql -U udiddit -d udiddit -c "SELECT count(*) FROM topics;"
docker exec udiddit-pg psql -U udiddit -d udiddit -c "SELECT count(*) FROM posts;"
docker exec udiddit-pg psql -U udiddit -d udiddit -c "SELECT count(*) FROM comments;"
docker exec udiddit-pg psql -U udiddit -d udiddit -c "SELECT count(*) FROM votes;"

Expected counts with provided data: users=11077, topics=89, posts=50000, comments=100000, votes≈499710.

Cleanup

docker rm -f udiddit-pg