I Thank you Manie for posting something like this. It did experience exactly the same thing as I was learning SQL. As there are demanding request from other more senior folks, there are also arrogant office mates that would not help. Until someone new came along that knew a lot of things that we helped each other out did I start to learn.

I however want to point out that if a new person comes into this line of work, for them to take

the initiative to read, research and practice. Most DBA's starting out almost use the Sr. ones as

a crutch and never want to give it some effort before asking the questions.

When my Jr. DBA's ask me a question, I tell them to look it up first and then we can discuss if they still have any questions. I provide them with a DBA Test environment of which they can practice and learn before they mess with production servers and databases.