Databases are boring
As some may know, I love computers, I love everything about them. I like writing and reading on the computer - the wealth of information is amazing, I like smaller programming tasks (for now), I enjoyed Java, HTML, CSS, my current excursion into ASP.NET and VB.NET, I enjoy working with images and video. But there is one thing that I could never warm up to and that is anything related to databases. Databases bore me - just the thought of gigabytes of data makes me yawn. Unfortunately, the ASP.NET class at Davenport also covers some database stuff. It makes sense I guess, most web-based programs are connected to a database somewhere be it an online shop or a customer list, a service list or what-not. Have I just not found the right approach to it to see the beauty of databases?
So far, I have enjoyed every single chapter of this book, but now I have to force myself through pages and pages covering SQL, ADO, ODBC, COM, OLE and I can’t seem to finish. What’s up with all the acronyms? I have to fight through at least another 50 pages going on and on about data connections and sources, queries and relationships, propertiessssssss - sorry, my head hit the keyboard when I feel asleep typing this. Can anyone help me? What am I not getting? Is there a way to make this more enjoyable? It’s not like I need much - heck, I have spent hours of my life watching my hard drive defrag and download progress bars grow.
Oh well, back to the ADO.NET model….