Topic 7 follows section 6.7 of the Training Plan: six exercises over about eleven hours, with answers and seven figures. Reading a schema you did not design; SQL that answers a planning question; geometry and the ST_ functions; indexes and query plans; backup, restore and a safe migration; then the hands-on — parcels per zone for Sagnarigu Municipal, answered two ways. Unlike the earlier topics this one had a real database to work against, so every query, plan and timing in the answers was measured rather than described. Parcels per zone takes 14 779 ms as the data is stored, 140 ms once the zone geometry is a geometry column with a GiST index, and 53 ms with the parcels indexed too — the same answer all three times, and almost all of the gain from the type rather than the indexes. A district count on the live table is a sequential scan over 211 264 buffers in 2.6 seconds; indexed, it is 60 buffers and 16 ms. The hands-on ends somewhere more useful than a number. The attribute answer places all 67 560 parcels in a zone; the spatial answer places 27 880, because the collector-zone polygons cover 64 km² of a 440 km² district. Where both speak they agree 99.4 % of the time, so the likeliest reading is incomplete zone polygons rather than wrong attributes — which is a reading, not a result, and the exercise says so and sends it to the trainer. Topic 0 is new and is not a teaching day: the half day before topic 1, covering what has to be installed and proving it afterwards. Windows step by step with the installer choices that matter, macOS in a dozen Homebrew commands, cloning LUPMIS2 and getting npm run dev to a map, restoring the training database, a nine-command readiness check, and the five failures that account for nearly every lost morning. Written for machines where the trainee has administrator rights, with every tool installed in one pass. Still open in topic 7: exercise 6 part D compares the SQL with the application's own zonal statistics, and only the SQL side is measured — the LUPMIS API was unreachable. To be redone when the server is back. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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