Wee 26 (Week 8 of CST363)

Now that my CST363 Intro to Databases has concluded, reflecting on what I've learned over the course is that I really enjoy working with databases: creating them, building queries, and using them to run web applications.

 The databases course has shown me how foundational they are many real world systems, and given me good insights into how I might recreate them. We've learned about how relational databases work, embedded docs and references, and how to present data in diagrams or in code.

Data management has also been an important lesson, particularly regarding real world examples and applications. CRUD operations play a real-world role in applications and in handling data.

Additionally, the main two options for DBs that we've learned about vary greatly in schema flexibility, complexity, and scalability for their structures. NoSQL is flexible and fast moving, while SQL is structured and excels and creating relationships between points of data.