Re: SQL programming fundamentals

  • From: "Bill Ferguson" <wbfergus@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: peter.robson@xxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 05:25:31 -0600

My own, minimally qualified personal opinion is that the more a person
knows, the better. But conversely, some things like 'tuple relational
calculus' aren't required to perform the job either.

No matter where someone works, or how much they know, each
database/system setup is pretty unique, so everybody is always in some
kind of learning process (or at least should be). The greater their
'base knowledge', the greater the chance they would need as much
'familiarity training' of that particular database/system, and perhaps
the greater the chance they would have sound, solid advice for
improvements to the database/system as well.

But, like everything else, there's always an exception to the rule.
Keep in mind my opinion is from the standpoint of someone (actually
the only one in my case), working a purely custom database and
application. Perhaps others working with more 'pre-canned' software
would have a different opinion.


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