SurrealDB Practice Exercises: Essential Techniques for Mastering the Framework

Here is a short practice exercise for SurrealDB:

Practice Exercise

1. Sign up for a free account on the SurrealDB website and create a new database cluster from the dashboard.
2. Use the SurrealDB API or driver for your preferred programming language to connect to the database.
3. Create a new collection in the database using the createCollection command.
4. Insert a new document into the collection using the insertOne command.
5. Retrieve the document using the findOne command and print it to the console.
6. Update the document using the updateOne command.
7. Delete the document using the deleteOne command.
8. Repeat steps 4-7 with multiple documents to practice working with multiple documents in a collection.
9. Use the backup command to create a backup of the database.
10. Use the restore command to restore the database from a previous backup.
11. Use the shardCollection command to shard the collection across multiple nodes for improved performance and scalability.
12. Use the explain command to analyze the performance of a query and optimize it for better performance.

This practice exercise will give you hands-on experience working with SurrealDB and help you get familiar with its basic concepts and features.