Re: A problem in SQL (a real challenge)

And me?? Dropped out of Compuserve.... Joined a really good discussion group
about computer consulting hosted by Realrates.com ... Joined a few egroups about
Oracle, none very good. ... I still miss a few people on Compuserve, but not enough to wish I were still there.

I've been learning a little more about how to SELL my services, so I've been getting more direct contracts, and I'm less dependent on brokers. This is good because it gives me more chance to work from my own office, and more chance to serve multiple clients concurrently, rather than go to a customer's site and sit there for 40 hours each week.

Of course, the fact that the economy is so hot has helped me learn to sell. This even though my skills are considered passe by the thundering herd that went to Java and web design. But when they got terabytes of data that nobody under thirty can decode, who they gonna call?

Apart from work, my life is pretty quiet. Thank God.

Joe Celko <71062.1056_at_compuserve.com> wrote in message <8f17fa$lt3$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com>...
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>>> In general, people who can design databases correctly for large
>scale enterprises and applications are so valuable doing that they
>don't have much time for "programming" anymore. <<
>
>That is my problem; I hae not written application code in a decade
>now. Once you get to be an SQL guru, all you do is teach SQL, design
>databases or write the SQL calls inside an application. But I have no
>idea what the applications do any more.
>
>>> Hiya Joe, long time no see! I know you've been here all the
>time, but it's been a while since I've touched base with you. <<
>
>Life has been a series of family problems that read like a Jerry
>Springer or Sally Jessie show -- I have hopes of getting to the level
>of a soap opera later this year. I am trying to make an effort to go
>on-line for an hour a day in the SQL forums via Deja.com to keep my
>hand in things. I really need to give up my section on Compuserve,
>since nobody visits me there anyway.
>
>And yourself?
>
>
>--CELKO--
>Joe Celko, SQL and Database Consultant
>
>
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>Before you buy.
Received on Mon May 08 2000 - 00:00:00 CEST