My Database Journey started with Borland Paradox, via Microsoft Access to SQL Server. I wasn’t very good with Paradox. Somewhere while working with Access I think I understood the basics of data modelling for an rDBMS. I got things to work, but seriously I wasn’t very good. Moving over to SQL Server made me realise something. SQL and SQL isn’t always the same. And since I didn’t even understand best practices in MS Access, my knowledge didn’t really translate well to SQL Server.

This session is about mistakes and misunderstandings. Most of the mistakes and misunderstandings are my own. Having misunderstood things, leading to having made mistakes, is part of the reason I now consider myself pretty good with SQL Server.

What you will get if you attend this session is:
- Me making fun of myself and my mistakes and misunderstandings.
- Consequences. Real ones and theoretical ones.
- How I should have done instead (and how you should do to avoid making the same mistakes I did)