Summary

This chapter has equipped you with practical skills that are essential for database management and SQL proficiency. It began by teaching you how to set up local database environments for PostgreSQL and MySQL, covering installation and configuration. Subsequently, you had the chance to learn how to create and manage databases, perform key administrative tasks, and gain proficiency in SQL through a CLI. This chapter also introduced database design tools and culminated in a hands-on exercise where you created your first database schema. Overall, this chapter provided you with foundational skills in database setup, management, SQL, and schema design, preparing you for real-world database challenges.

Next, we will be diving deeper into relational models and how we can improve and optimize existing sample databases. We’ll learn how to iterate over the ShopSphere database in the next chapter.