I should have made my comment more explicit. I'm talking about web development. There are a ton of jobs which my comments don't apply to. And yours sounds like

I should have made my comment more explicit. I'm talking about web development. There are a ton of jobs which my comments don't apply to. And yours sounds like one of them. There are are entire areas of my work that also have nothing to do with collecting or storing data, and I recognize that SQL has no place in that work. I was speaking to the bulk of my work and assuming (perhaps wrongly) that we were talking about similar things. My bad. And you are totally correct about life being more than CRUD apps.