Knowing SQL is a v.important part of the whole package. No excuse for not knowing a decent about of T-SQL.
"This e-mail is from Reed Exhibitions (Oriel House, 26 The Quadrant, Richmond, Surrey, TW9 1DL, United Kingdom), a division of Reed Business, Registered in England, Number 678540. It contains information which is confidential and may also be privileged. It is for the exclusive use of the intended recipient(s). If you are not the intended recipient(s) please note that any form of distribution, copying or use of this communication or the information in it is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this communication in error please return it to the sender or call our switchboard on +44 (0) 20 89107910. The opinions expressed within this communication are not necessarily those expressed by Reed Exhibitions." Visit our website at http://www.reedexpo.com -----Original Message----- From: Denny Valliant To: CF-Talk Sent: Sun Aug 27 01:28:55 2006 Subject: Re: Top 100 ColdFusion Programmers On 8/25/06, Ali Awan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I second that. > In terms of SQL prowess being an indication of a developer's skills, some > of the reporting I have done, requires an intense knowledge of SQL Server > complex queries and Stored Procedures. Something that your average HTML > guru who just picked up teach yourself Coldfusion in 10 days, won't have any > clue about. It's partly this reason that I like Reactor for CF. Keeps all the logic in the language, vs. req. knowledge of SQL. Basically the same, but avoids making the dev learn all the dialects... good and bad about this... as with SQL knowledge alone, you can generally jump ship and make a wad of dough... And you'd still need the SQL knowledge to be "fast" even with a ORM. Eh, guess like all things, it just depends- or doesn't matter, according to perspective. :-P ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:251176 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
