SQL Server 2022 and Learning

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SQL Server 2022 and Learning

Grant Fritchey

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November 6, 2021 at 1:00 am

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richard.sherratt Grasshopper Points: 13 More actions · Answer 1

I'm retired and in my 70s. I still use SQL Server to keep my mind active and to have fun. I'm learning new stuff all the time. And I'm developing a system for private individuals to manage their stock market portfolios. It might be ready for public scrutiny some time in the next 10 years. I'm interested in the new 2022 release and I find it exciting.

I was a developer and never a real DBA, though I was an accidental DBA when my biggest customer went without a DBA for around 5 years. I used to program in a couple of varieties of assembler, FORTRAN, COBOL and ALGOL I started database development in 1973 with Burroughs DMSII, survived IMS and Oracle, had fun with DEC Rdb, spent some time doing strategic planning, got back to database with Access V1 and got onto SQL Server in 1997.

Wingenious SSCommitted Points: 1648 More actions · Answer 2

Great editorial!

This reply was modified 3 years ago by Wingenious.

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Rod at work SSC-Dedicated Points: 34007 More actions · Answer 3

Great editorial, Grant, thank you for writing it!!

Kindest Regards, Rod Connect with me on LinkedIn.

nommis SSC Journeyman Points: 87 More actions · Answer 4

Hi Grant, Thanks for your "words of wisdom". I used to feel a bit guilty and less of a DBA than others, due to not getting absorbed in all the new stuff as soon as it was out and not knowing all about the new features. Now that I'm "older and wiser" (or is that just jaded?) I'm happy and content knowing what I know and doing what I do and the rest of it doesn't really matter.

There will always be another newer version, another newer technology and another latest, must have skill. But, as you say, what matters is "how you help your co-workers, taking care of your loved ones, all that stuff" and I would add taking care of yourself and the beautiful world around you.

Maybe I'll take a look at 2022 in a bit, or maybe not . . .

sqlrider SSC Enthusiast Points: 104 More actions · Answer 5

"It doesn't hurt to remember that sometimes when all you can hear around you is people shouting about what's new"

Amen!

Especially now - both with the stream of new things in Azure and the breadth of communication channels putting out content about said things - websites, emails, videos, blogs, webinars etc. It'd be a full time job to consume it all. Learn what's relevant, what you can, when you can.

https://sqlrider.net - My technical blog

Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004323 More actions · Answer 6

Heh... I'm sometimes amazed at how people almost feverishly try to learn a whole lot of new stuff when they haven't actually learned to use the old stuff or even the basics well enough to understand whether or not the new stuff is going to help them do what they want.

--Jeff Moden

RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

Helpful Links:
How to post code problems
How to Post Performance Problems
Create a Tally Function (fnTally)

Wingenious SSCommitted Points: 1648 More actions · Answer 7

Jeff Moden wrote:

people almost feverishly try to learn a whole lot of new stuff when they haven't actually learned to use the old stuff or even the basics well enough to understand whether or not the new stuff is going to help them

And yet somehow the new stuff has magically become the solution to almost every problem.

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