Data
How databases work
Storage, indexes, query plans, transactions and recovery.
About 40 hours of study.
Where to learn it
Read
Architecture of a Database System
Hellerstein, Stonebraker, Hamilton
The whole paper
How a real database is put together, by people who built them.
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Watch
Database Systems (CMU 15-445/645)
Andy Pavlo
The full lecture series
Lecture videos are on the CMU Database Group YouTube channel.
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Practise
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- Data Base Management System (NPTEL) (watch)
The full course
Which roles ask for it
- Software engineer (SDE) good to have
- Backend engineer in the first year
- Data engineer in the first year
- GATE computer science to get hired
Before and after
How databases work
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