Online Database Guide and Knowledge Base

By now, you must have observed that I try to touch each and any topics on this blog, not sticking it to one specific topic. Instead, I keep on talking about the things I come across in life whether it’s fun as seen in the video earlier or technical.

Though it has been long time for me touching to technical work in my professional life, I still try to keep in touch with it by my studies. One of the most favorite topic I had was databases while I was technical. I was little diplomatic while choosing this topic of my interest as well to be honest. Almost all commercial applications need databases and if I could stick to it, I was sure that I would never be out of work.

If you look at the history of databases, it has come a long way, has been in existence in various forms and now in the forms that suit to the fast paces world and businesses. There is lot to read about it, so linked you to an initial article on the history of DBs. It has been talking a lot about various database knowledge bits and pieces like Java database connectivity or data dictionary etc.

While I was fresher, I used to read a lot about DBs, and believe me - more your browse and read the online database guides, more you gain knowledge and can implement it practically. Just textbooks you used in your school would not help. I would recommend finding more and more such guides and improve the knowledge.

While we think databases useful, being in IT - I have experienced how issues in databases can bring the businesses to stand still. I remember once we were stuggling with the DB for 36 hrs to fix an urgent issue on production databases, our database has grown so much that it could not really handle the user requests efficiently. We were in urgent need of some good database optimization which could have been taken care earlier and we missed it to keep in focus. Probably, there was need to have a good database administrator than developers looking after one.

Fortunately, the processes have been improved so much now that companies invest much more in database resources than before. So if you are still technical, it would make sense for you to keep improving your knowledge and proudly save your jobs by being in mission critical department of any organization.