This cannot be stressed enough, a good foundation in Relational concepts can save you hours of frustration in performance tuning. Too many times developers lear

This cannot be stressed enough, a good foundation in Relational concepts can save you hours of frustration in performance tuning. Too many times developers learn how to dump some stuff in a table and away they go. Understanding relational concepts is as important as understanding good programming concepts, it is not and should not be an afterthought for developers. As the parent implied once you have a grasp of this, you can weigh the pros and cons of the noSQL databases for particular projects.