Tim, please accept my apologies, I realize now how useful it is for the community to have contributions like yours.

Steve, thank you for your comments, they are equally useful for...

btw you were at least as rude as I was. You were much ruder in a sense. Whereas my sentence strictly reflects the content of the article (the author himself...

I just said exactly what the article says

you don't know more about me than you know about DB design

Essentially the author is telling us that some time ago he was one of the worst DB developers out there and lately he has started to learn some very basic...