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HN comment orderI'd also highly recommend the redbook (readings in databases) which is by several luminaries in the database world including Peter Bailis, Joe Hellerstein, and Michael Stonebraker. They also updated it in recent years to ensure it was up to date for the latest research on databases as well - http://www.redbook.io/
Plugging in Andy Pavlo's Database lectures @ CMU which are completely free on Youtube. Great guy and great lectures.
(1995) Previous discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26809253 (April 2021 53 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19726520 (April 2019 52 comments)
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- Breakout years
- 3
- Total points
- 1016
- Total comments
- 109
100+ points or 50+ comments
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reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-04-23 | Foundations of Databases (1995)First breakout · Best thread | tosh | 662 | 52 |
| 2021-04-14 | Foundations of Databases (1995) | harperlee | 253 | 53 |
| 2022-07-24 | Foundations of DatabasesLatest 20+ point return | tosh | 101 | 4 |