"Because most undergrad education around databases is poor and antiquated. Plus, it is not SQL focused - much time is spent on talking about data modeling. Not

"Because most undergrad education around databases is poor and antiquated. Plus, it is not SQL focused - much time is spent on talking about data modeling. Not wrong, but not often helpful in practice." I am taking a database management class this semester. Its awful. We spent over half the semester drawing diagrams. Just last week we started working with actual SQL.