Originally Posted by Freebase Dali

You don't need to know how to build queries in SQL in order to know how to manage SQL. Leave the stored procedures and various queries to the software developers. They're the ones that build that kind of thing. But do know how it all works in general. It's easy enough to learn in a few months just by playing around.

What aggravates me is these people I work with who I guess specialized so hard that the most obvious sh*t just escapes them. Like, I routinely have to show most of these "software developers" how to see what their IP address is. One guy, heh, don't even get me started, he's so f*cking lost that my best solution was for him to restart his computer, and he thought I was a genius. I also have to routinely reset his passwords for everything, because apparently he just chooses random characters and doesn't try to remember them at all.

How do people get masters degrees in a field of programming without knowing how the f*ck the sh*t works on the computer?
How do they excel at something without having any knowledge of the platform upon which they're developing? I swear, most of my developers pretty much view computers as some weird machine that they don't know about. But they can code. It's so f*cking weird.