What is the last step in the database roadmap?
Production practices: connection pooling, environment variables for the connection string, error handling, backups, and monitoring. These are essential for running a database in production, not just in development.
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In order: SQL vs NoSQL, MongoDB with Mongoose, indexes and performance, schema design for queries, SQL basics, migrations, and production practices like connection pooling and error handling. Each step builds real backend database expertise.
SQL vs NoSQL. Understand the difference between relational and non-relational databases, their strengths, and how to choose. This is the foundation for all database decisions in your app.
After you can do basic CRUD with MongoDB and Mongoose. Indexes are about performance as data grows, so you need to understand querying first to know which fields to index.
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