Follow up to this insightful post.

It's been a few months and I feel my SQL has gotten stronger, for ~2 years it was decent and now it's really move up a notch. Let say pre this post I was at a 4 out of a 10, and I am talking the top of the tops are 9's and 10's most people never get to those levels. I am now at least a solid 5 - 5.5, Far beyond basic joins, sub queries etc.

I've recently created a full end to end solution predicting volume forecasting. We have another in the works and this is soup to nuts, SQL query, SSAS mining structure, SSIS to bring it into a flat file, manipulation as seen fit then finally ending up into a BO report or Power Bi, depending on the granularity of the data.

I still have a ways to go...... Been focusing on stats more recently and the use of R. Still a total green bean.....

Any way thanks for all the great info, it helped me in more than one way.