school-of-sre/courses/databases_sql/intro.md

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# Relational Databases
### What to expect from this training
You will have an understanding of what relational databases are, their advantages, and some MySQL specific concepts.
### What is not covered under this course
* In depth implementation details
* Advanced topics like normalization, sharding
* Specific tools for administration
### Introduction
The main purpose of database systems is to manage data. This includes storage, adding new data, deleting unused data, updating existing data, retrieving data within a reasonable response time, other maintenance tasks to keep the system running etc.
### Prerequisites
* Complete [Linux course](/linux_basics/intro/)
* Install Docker (for lab section)
### Pre-reads
[RDBMS Concepts](https://beginnersbook.com/2015/04/rdbms-concepts/)