I've decided that it's too big to know everything and, as of 2008, is changing too quickly to keep up with everything about it so I don't even try anymore. Rather, I allow what is needed at work to be my driver. If something new comes up that I don't have a particular skill in, I check with Books Online, check with my assistant DBA (Google), or make stuff of my own up. 😀

Same as above except that I also write my own articles on things that I've learned or discovered. :hehe:

Necessity is truly the Mother of Invention. If I can't find it in Books Online or somewhere on Google, I write my own stuff to solve the problem. Sometimes it takes a while and it might end up being a composite of what I find in Books Online, on Google, and from a serious amount of exploratory code, but even if I'm not successful in solving a given task, I always learn a bunch from the research I did to try to help my brain wring out the problem.

This site and its sister site, "Simple-Talk.com" are both great places to learn new things. Like learning in any other skill area, it takes time, research, and practice. Leaving out any of the 3 will leave you learning quite a bit less.