I took a single DB class in college and it has put me head and shoulders above my average SWE peers for the last ten years or so. Having a basic concept of what

I took a single DB class in college and it has put me head and shoulders above my average SWE peers for the last ten years or so. Having a basic concept of what normalization is and how to apply it, and what level of normalization is practical in a project at your work’s scale, is super important and helpful. Learning just a small amount of theory can really help!