• call.copse - Friday, January 12, 2018 2:40 AM

    Hmm, I have known the formal definitions and not too long ago, I think I know all the elements and I certainly know what to actually do, however I couldn't define the forms without looking them up. Not worth actually doing until an interview as I'd forget it anyway IMO!

    Similar here. There is a lot of mundane stuff out there you just can't speak to in terms of correct and technical definitions. Doesn't mean you can't do it or understand it. 

    For example, I played guitar for 10 years, still can't read sheet music. I still don't hold the neck right compared to what a guitar teacher showed me. I still can't name all the notes, but I still play very complex music.

    But there are certain things too, like point-in-time recovery. If you're working with a mission critical system, the time your wasting to look it up, some doctor may not be able to access critical information to save a patience life versus the senior DBA who actually knows his stuff is midway through the recovery while you are still on Google reading some SQLServerCentral.com post from 2014 that Jeff Moden made. :crazy: