mikej 14403 (7/22/2013)
My two impressions are SLQ is amazingly and deceptively simple. SQL shows how simple concepts evolve into something with much complexity. This is a natural quandary within SQL.Nothing feeds creative people more than being around a multitude of ideas and experience in an open environment where being different is expected and like think is discouraged.
Mike - Thanks for the insight, shared wisdom like this is wonderful and a light to those who are on the road to maturity in the field.
I agree that SQL is both simple and complex, and as with many other IT tools there are those who can bend it to do some very amazing things. The idea of "we have always done it this way" is only temporal. In reality we all have done things this way until there was reason to change, then we either changed or fossilized. But that choice is up to use as individuals.
But each choice to resist logical and valuable change costs many much more then they think.
Again I appreciate what you have said and look forward to your future contributions.
M.
Not all gray hairs are Dinosaurs!