Exactly. There is still a lot of demand for the core skills: Scoping, User Requirements, Current Analysis, etc. ... with the ability to maybe pitch in with some of the "techie" stuff during development.

Rarely does programming make or break a project; it's the front-end work that makes the difference ... which are still rare skills indeed.

>I remember when MS announced Access and when Access became the first database application to surpass one million copies in sales. The application made "black boxes" out of the repetitive database tasks that we faced daily. My pitch to the SIG was "transferable skills". Business analysis, database design, implementation of business logic -- the need will never go away.