[DMDB] Learnings from practice exams, plus some more tips and tricks

semester4/dmdb/parts/08_quick-overview/04_checklist.tex

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+\subsection{Checklist}
+The following things are typically important to know very well (not exhaustive)
+\begin{todolist}
+    \item SQL
+    \item Functional Dependencies (including Candidate Keys, Super Keys, Closures and minimal covers)
+    \item Normal Forms (and their Decomposition / Synthesis Algorithms)
+    \item Time complexities, I/Os and sorted runs for Query Processing
+    \item Conflict Serializability
+    \item Recoverability (both the normal techniques, plus Snapshot Isolation and 2-Phase Locking (and strict variant thereof))
+\end{todolist}