Module 5 - CST 363

This week covered some interesting topics including concurrency, isolation transaction levels, and normalization. Some of the exercises utilizing mySQL workbench to simulate two users modifying a database at the same time were quite interesting, and it was interesting to see the differing ways the database had of handling transactions depending on the isolation level that was used. It was also interesting learning about normalization and its uses, and also when denormalization may actually be beneficial to a database manager. Overall it was a very interesting and engaging week.