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Databases: Executive Briefing

by Simon Allardice

Databases are ubiquitous in business and life, but they're often misunderstood and underestimated. Quickly ramp up on the reasons, features, the terminology and jargon around databases, the current marketplace, and the skills you need.

What you'll learn

Tech leaders need a fundamental understanding of the tools and technologies their teams use to build solutions. In this course, Databases: Executive Briefing, you will learn foundational knowledge of databases; not just a single product, but the entire technology area. First, you will cover the core features of databases, the problems they solve, and the choices you might need to make. Next, you will discover the end-to-end process of designing a database. Finally, you will explore the marketplace and skills needed on a team. When you’re finished with this course, you will have the skills and knowledge to help implement a database to support your product, team, or organization.

About the author

Simon is Creative Director and Principal Author at Pluralsight. With over three decades of software development experience, he's programmed in every discipline: from finance to transportation, nuclear reactors to game development. Prior to joining Pluralsight, Simon was the principal developer author at lynda.com. His first video course released back in 2002: since then, his popular courses have been viewed by hundreds of thousands of developers. His current focus is both on the new — the latest... more

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