IMO, there is another reason for your observation, one I've observed with my team. C++ people tend to go to C# and are more likely to do bit twiddling to store data in less space rather than use related tables. They're also likely to say it performs better.

>I said that those were my observations. Yes, it could just be a coincidence. Yes, I've seen very basic SQL questions from VB.NET people....just not as many.
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>However, I also believe there's a chance that a slighly higher % of C# people have been in environments where others wrote database code, whereas a VB.NET person might have been a tad more likely to write database code himself/herself.
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>(Part of the reason I made the observation was "in fairness"...there are many trends that favor C#, so I wanted to throw one in from the "other side", and that's probably the biggest thing I've noticed).