When I graduated University in 2003, I took a front desk job doing business reporting and running adhoc queries. I did this work for many years in a variety of places, always working with a different type of database in each company. There's so much depth to relational data modeling and SQL. Many, many ways to design queries. I didn't get into hardcore application development until many years later.

I've forgotten some of the more advanced SQL that I've written over the years. I look back at SQL I've written as if I'm reading someone else's work.

I enjoy working with postgres but miss the temporary table workflow in sybase.