unfortunately; by the time you feel like you are getting a successful or near proficient

grasp on the current sql envrironment or material... it will be time for the next release,

and you start all over again.

this is what makes some of the IT industry frustrating, and by that point after spending all

that time in the trenches getting to know this stuff; you are about ready to do something

else.

the caveat is that your so vested in databases that it's easier to drudge through it again

meanwhile griping all the way on how you would like to do something else. possibly not in IT.

catch 22