Database Management Systems

A book-shaped table of contents for DBMS: relational foundations through SQL mastery, storage internals, transactions, distributed databases, NoSQL, and MAANG interview prep — cross-linking existing system-design/patterns notes instead of duplicating them.

1 — Query Execution

Traces a query's path from parsing through optimization to execution, and how to read an execution plan.

3 — Join Algorithms

Compares nested loop, block nested loop, index nested loop, merge join, and hash join algorithms and when the optimizer picks each.

Database Management Systems

A book-shaped table of contents for DBMS: relational foundations through SQL mastery, storage internals, transactions, distributed databases, NoSQL, and MAANG interview prep — cross-linking existing system-design/patterns notes instead of duplicating them.

1 — Why Databases Exist

Traces the shift from file-based storage to DBMS, the problems that shift solved, and introduces OLTP vs OLAP and the CAP perspective.