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Unsolicited career advice for juniors: read a SQL book over a weekend and read a book about the DBMS your job is using on the next weekend. You’ll be very surpr
by baq 2y ago
Unsolicited career advice for juniors: read a SQL book over a weekend and read a book about the DBMS your job is using on the next weekend. You’ll be very surprised by how much senior folks don’t know or worse about databases.
- niwtsol 2y agoThis is fantastic advice. At the first startup I worked at, we had several issues with our MySQL dbs & ETL jobs (MyISAM table locks, slow updates, no replication) - I spent a few days just reading the relevant sections of "High Performance MySQL: Optimization, Backups, Replication, and More" - and voila I had solid recommendations built on facts rather than random opinions people created over the years - put my career on an entirely different trajectory.
- baq 2y agoExactly what I had in mind, I've seen this first hand a couple times. It's a few days of reading which literally can change your life.
- dondraper36 2y agoIdeally, also invest some time and work through the CMU Intro to Database Systems course by Andy Pavlo. That's how I would have started if I had to start from scratch
- jxjnskkzxxhx 2y agoFurther advice about life: read, ask questions, dig deeper. You'll be very surprised how many people don't know the basics of anything.