So I just had a chance encounter with a former professor of mine, Dr. Hicks from Trinity University.

While I was at Trinity University, mumble mumble long time ago, Dr. Hicks assured me that I needed to take his database class, the course at Trinity CS department that was the most focused on SQL. That class had a sterling reputation, it was regarded as difficult, but practical and comprehensive. Dr. Hicks is a good-natured and capable teacher, and approached the topic with both sophistication, enthusiasm and affection. But databases and SQL is a complicated topic and no amount of nice-professoring is going to make it easier. It was a hard class and at the time, avoiding a hard class seemed like the right decision for me.

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