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StefanBatory | 2 months ago

Is this a common thing to have at university? I'm from one of top universities in Poland; our database courses never included anything more than basic SQL where cursors were the absolute end. Even at Masters.

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redbluered|2 months ago

Yes. It is. Your database course was apparently broken.

StefanBatory|2 months ago

I can tell you something scarier.

My specialisation was databases there.

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Do not worry, I do not work with databases in professional life as my main aspect. But I was not given a comprehensive education, and not even once there was a focus on anything more in depth. I came out without even knowing how databases work inside.

Naturally, I know what I could do - read a good book or go through open source projects, like Sqlite. But that knowledge was not was my uni gave me...

I am jealous of American/Canadian unis in this aspect.