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I also recommend following Andy Pavlo and the CMU Database Group which has lots of free courses, videos and material:

https://db.cs.cmu.edu/

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHnBsf2rH-K7pn09rb3qvkA

It suffers from the common issue for such content - theory/lectures are too diverged from the practical/lab part.

There's nothing stopping you from just writing code following the lectures. What else would a practical/lab part be? \

There are tons of open-source databases on github that you can hack on so I don't think there's a major issue with getting practical experience if you want it.

You can try the homework assignments. They aren't trivial and you'll probably learn a bunch more by not being spoon fed the answers. Admittedly, the only bummer is not having someone review your work.

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