Database Systems/Structures

[DSMok1]

I currently do not work with any databases, nor do I have experience with any database systems.

What sort of database systems and structures do you all use for handling and manipulating your data sets?  What would you recommend?   I would be looking to learn a free/open source system.

All of my data handling and manipulation to date have been done in Excel and, to some extent, Tableau Public (mostly for visualizations).

Thanks!

Daniel

[Joseph Blackmer]

I work with SQL Server at work and MySQL occasionally at home. Right now, I'm working on creating a library for C# to load the data and easily access it via LINQ. After I'm done with that, the plan is to write some scripts to load the data from the CSVs into a database.

If you are going to be learning anything, I'd think you'd want to learn SQL, although, it would probably take you a bit of time to get to the point that you would be able to produce the data you wanted using SQL.

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