Long time ago I was a Project Manager in the old sense of the term - at that point in time the "Project Manager" was a Sr Systems Analyst in charge of a project from end-to-end including Functional analysis, Storage specifications, Programming specifications and Implementation.
One day the company I was working for decided to test a new technology on a specific project, project got assigned to me. The "new technology" was Cincom Systems TOTAL DBMS, a network database management system. It was love at first sight.
Over time relational databases come into the picture like Supra and Adabas. I just followed the technological flow doing nowadays mostly Oracle and SQL Server.
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Pablo (Paul) Berzukov
Author of Understanding Database Administration available at Amazon and other bookstores.
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