This week's assignments were very intense for me, and took me a very long time to get my head wrapped around (thus the slightly late post). At the same time, it was one of my favorite topics of the course. The most difficult concept for me to understand was the queries, especially the left join/right join. However, having to come up with my own for the weekly dropbox assignment really forced me to look at it closely and mull over the differences between the different joins, and I am happy to say that I now understand them (at least on a basic level).
At first the MySQL syntax was a little but overwhelming to me, but the more I do it the easier and more intuitive it becomes. I really look forward to creating a couple of my own databases and playing around with them. I would like to create one for my home book collection, as well as one for my small art business. I found myself liking MySQL for laying out database and table structure, then using Webmin as a way to add values to the database tables. It seems like a simple way of adding information. There were a couple of times this week where I felt overwhelmed by all of the new information, but in the end I feel like I learned a lot of extremely useful information.
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