[v5v3]

>... and frankly anyone accessing an RDBMS as a regular part of their job should know it.

With entity framework code first, Microsoft made it possible for generations of developers to barely touch a database.

A lot of Devs have poor database skills nowadays.

Which suits the cloud sellers who want to push managed platforms

[sgarland]

Agreed. What’s worse is when they confidently proclaim that they had to scale up N times “to handle the load,” but then a brief reading of of their schema and queries reveals that an RPi could probably handle it if they’d designed a better schema, and had a basic understanding of B+trees.

[v5v3]

A lot of SQL consultants had/have a great job going into companies having issues and producing a report of the obvious!!