I think my biggest memory of 2013 was breaking into the world of SQL and BI from a completely unrelated part of the business I work for. I've been lucky enough to have been given an opportunity to train and learn, from essentially scratch, as I go. I'm now terrified by how little I know, but at the same time, raring to learn as much as I can.
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