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Re:Technical and non-technical tips for rocking your coding ... by aidos on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @07:19PM (#15343504)
Don't get me wrong - it's not a question I'd ask myself, but I think you'd get some interesting answers. I'm fairly sure with that starting question I'd be able to have a conversation that gave me a pretty good idea about how well someone knew databases.

Do they talk about tables? What about indexes? How about sql? Do they ask enquire about the requirements / data model?

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Re:Technical and non-technical tips for rocking your coding ... by marcosdumay on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @08:12PM (#15343807)
> Do they talk about tables? What about indexes? How about sql?

Interesting, because as soon as I got over the "why the hell do you want to create a new DBMS?" question, my first thought was about filesystems. I haven't digged into any DBMS to look at, but all those you point look so easy when compared to atomic data writing...

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Re:Technical and non-technical tips for rocking your coding ... by mlnj on Wednesday September 27, 2017 @04:05AM (#15345741)
If someone started with 'How would you write a database?', I would just talk about simple csv reader n writer with no other promises and be done with it. Everything else is a feature.
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