Have more than 10 years of experience in designing, developing and maintaining database systems on diverse platforms such as Oracle, Postgres, MySQL, Mongo, Cassandra, Redis, and SQLServer.
Good question. Designing a database is the most crucial part of any application. One must fully understand the concepts of database management system as well as most of the features of the database engine they have opted for.
As far as the interviews are related, start answering the questions from the most high-level database design concepts then slowly dive into the deeper knowledge you have about the database technology you are comfortable with. Keep it short and explain the design as fluent as possible, don't say anything you don't know about, else the interviewer will ditch you into that rabbit hole and you will be chasing your tail clarifying your statement.
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How to answer database design related questions during interviews?
Good question. Designing a database is the most crucial part of any application. One must fully understand the concepts of database management system as well as most of the features of the database engine they have opted for.
As far as the interviews are related, start answering the questions from the most high-level database design concepts then slowly dive into the deeper knowledge you have about the database technology you are comfortable with. Keep it short and explain the design as fluent as possible, don't say anything you don't know about, else the interviewer will ditch you into that rabbit hole and you will be chasing your tail clarifying your statement.