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Discussion on: What are you surprisingly terrible at, despite being otherwise competent?

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Avalander

Relational databases. I honestly go for document and key-value stores often not because I think RDBs are ill suited for the job but because I don't want to deal with them.

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Brian Hanna

Same! I'm awful at SQL and RDBs are the bane of my existence

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rhymes

aaaaah, you break my heart :P

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Avalander

It's not lack of will, it's lack of competence :p

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rhymes

What concepts you find hard? Maybe I can help.

In the meantime I think you can start here:

I'm not saying relational DBs are super easy, but I think they are really important to know, even if you end up not using them :D