Agreed, there is simply too much to know, for someone who programs as a day job. At my previous job, I was becoming the DBA, and I actually quite loved it, as

Agreed, there is simply too much to know, for someone who programs as a day job. At my previous job, I was becoming the DBA, and I actually quite loved it, as it was a fairly complicated setup w/high traffic. At my new job as purely backend developer, I found my previous software skills rusty. A couple months later, I am a strong software developer again, but ask me a DB question and it will take me a minute to bring it all together. Sadly, the area that was once my strongest has become weaker. If I wanted to keep up on my DB skills, I'd have to be studying/reading DB on the side, which I don't have time to do considering I'm a family man.