In the last few years, I've noticed that the quality of technical workers can vary quite a bit in many organizations. I think most people get things done, but often not at a high-quality level. It's one reason that I write, speak, and try to motivate more of you to work on your skills and your career. I want to see better software being built.

I tend to work with more database developers than application developers and I tend to see more SQL code than C#/Java/etc. And I see a lot of poorly written SQL Code and poor data models that seem to have been built without a lot of thought put into them. Whether this is because of ignorance or just poor skills is hard to know, but I see a lot of code that makes me slightly cringe.

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