Can’t believe our college didn’t make DB design and implementation a core requirement, anyone else on the same boat? Been having to learn it for my job

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I checked my alma mater's degree reqs and it is optional too. From a Computer Science POV I kinda get why it's optional but from a career POV it makes no sense.

Having said that, experimenting with an RBDMS is so stupid easy these days with Postgres and Docker. My old college uses this textbook in their intro to DB course: https://www.db-book.com/

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A module on relational databases was mandatory for my BS degree in Germany. It covered basic database design, SQL, and technicalities like B-Trees etc.
However there was nothing on other types of databases like NoSQL, wide-column, key/value, etc.

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Which college/degree program? Columbia College’s BS in MIS has a whole class on database systems.

UC Davis, it was an elective but not a requirement for a BS in Computer Science and Engineering

Ours was also an elective. It should be required probably but data structures is more important for everyone. Databases can be abstracted away for a lot of engineers

I could see why it’s split though. Prior to DevOps, a software track was separate from an infrastructure track. Being a Database Admin/Architect used to be very prestigious and common.

Please write this 100 times on the blackboard:

Computer Science degrees are not professional training.

Interesting, I didn’t take a traditional CS degree so I can’t really speak for most software engineers, but I had to take at least 5 classes that went into depth on everything from simple database queries and programming in oracle to database design, database administration, and data warehousing.

College isn't there to teach, it's there to test persistence. If that's the only thing you've had to learn on the job then you are lucky. This field is a lifetime moving field though, so if you don't like learning you won't be happy long.

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