One of the biggest eye-openers for me was this chart. https://www.sql-workbench.eu/dbms_comparison.html https://www.sql-workbench.eu/dbms_comparison.html One

One of the biggest eye-openers for me was this chart. https://www.sql-workbench.eu/dbms_comparison.html https://www.sql-workbench.eu/dbms_comparison.html One day I just sat down and learned about every item on that table. Not memorizing, just learning what it was for. Not only did my concept of what you can do with a database expand dramatically but also the limitations of insisting on hacking up equivalents in your own application code. It's amazing how many steps can be skipped and race conditions can be avoided by leaning into the SQL.