Never ever become 'the SQL guy' in your group. No one wants to learn it. SQL is the intersection of set theory, computational theory, network usage, cpu usage

Never ever become 'the SQL guy' in your group. No one wants to learn it. SQL is the intersection of set theory, computational theory, network usage, cpu usage, and laziness. "your table is 120 columns wide and nothing but strings with no rules of the data types and no indexes, sooooo your perf is a bit slow huh?" "yeah how did you know?" "wild guess"