>>>Relational Database Management Systems=RDBMS. Codd is the normalization guy, yes. VBA is a required learn to do any Automation stuff with Office. Enterprise development = know how an app should be tiered, scale issues, LAN/WAN issues. Server database design...etc.
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>>Taking notes...
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>>< sigh > I thought I was done with studying... :)
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>Welcome to computing. Lesson one: you may slouch at coding, be whatever you like, but you will never stop learning.
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>12 years ago, when I got my first programming job, the boss told me a joke over the first coffee, about a programmer who took a three week vacation - and was fired upon return, for becoming obsolete.
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>Hey, cheer up - you don't really have to do all those things. You only have to know them :)

I don't mind learning when it has practical value.

-Michelle