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Yeah, if you're going to work with databases regularly I think it's worth learning how b-trees work. It'll make a lot of things much more intuitive.

If you wanna get a very complete grounding in how the big rdbmses work, Andy Pavlo's lectures and class notes are fantastic.



I definitely second Andy Pavlo's lectures.




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