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Rails Girls SF - An Introduction to Databases

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January 18, 2014
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Rails Girls SF - An Introduction to Databases

10 minute intro to Databases for Rails Girls San Francisco Students

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January 18, 2014

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Transcript

  1. None

  2. About Databases

  3. About
 me Detour #1 @randommood

  4. How I got here

  5. Secret #1 I love databases

  6. Why do databases matter?

  7. None
  8. None

  9. github.com/engineyard/todo

  10. github.com/engineyard/todo

  11. The Universe The “rest” NoSQL Relational

  12. Relational DBs

  13. Shape of data is structured How you think & query

    is similar Relational DBs

  14. github.com/engineyard/todo

  15. Table Data

  16. Table Data

  17. Detour #3 1980 - 2.5 GB - 550 lbs (250

    kg)

  18. NoSQL !!

  19. practical instead of theoretical You think & query is specific

    to the database NoSQL

  20. Some examples

  21. Databases we use

  22. ! Awesome Resources

  23. Ruby Developer Rails and Databases Course 
 UT Austin Richard

    Schneeman schneems.com/ut-rails

  24. Coursera Professor and Chair of the Computer Science Department at

    Stanford University coursera.org/course/db

  25. Last detour! Coaches Think