• http://coding-geek.com/how-databases-work/
  • Highly rec'd by soham

• https://www.quora.com/Why-doesnt-Quora-use-PostgreSQL
• https://www.quora.com/Why-does-Quora-use-MySQL-as-the-data-store-instead-of-NoSQLs-such-as-Cassandra-MongoDB-or-CouchDB
• Typical Programmer - Why Programmers Don’t Like Relational Databases
• Typical Programmer - Abject-Oriented Databases
• 2014.02.21 - DigitalOcean - SQLite vs MySQL vs PostgreSQL: A Comparison Of Relational Database Management Systems - I thought this was a helpful overview.

Tools

• SQLiteBrowser
  • I've used this and it works fine.

Best practices

Specific RDBMSs

SQLite

• Installation
  • Go to SQLite3 download page
    1. Go down to the “Precompiled Binaries For Windows” section.
    2. Download “sqlite-shell” and “sqlite-dll” archive files.
       • sqlite-dll-win64-x64-3160200.zip
    3. Download the sqlite tools .zip
       • sqlite-tools-win32-x86-3160200.zip
    4. Unpack everything in C:\sqlite folder.
    5. Add that folder to your PATH.
• Creating the empty .db file:
  1. Hit the Windows key, type 'cmd', then right-click the 'Command Prompt' result and select 'Run as Administrator'.
  2. Navigate to the folder where you want the db to be.
  3. Type 'sqlite3 name_of_the_db.db' and hit 'Enter'.
• Simple example of a schema file:

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    CREATE TABLE salespeople ( id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY, first_name TEXT NOT NULL, last_name TEXT NOT NULL, commission_rate REAL NOT NULL );