Final Learning Journal Entry

 The three more important things I learned in this course were database design, transaction management, and data storage. 

The database design chapter was very informative. When working on projects in the past, it was relatively easy to figure out the main entities and attributes I was going to use. But the hard part was always visualizing the relationships between them and the issues they can create in database tables if they're badly set up. I think this part of the course gave me a good amount of knowledge on how to avoid these pitfalls.

I found the section on transaction management pretty interesting. It reminded me of material we learned in CSUMB's networking course. Particularly about how networking systems manage several competing network requests, and how internet traffic is managed.

I found the section on data storage interesting as well. I wasn't aware that partitions and storage could be optimized to the degree shown in the book chapters.

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