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Hi Dave
I agree with you in how the product (aka MS SQL Server) has grown, it has transformed in a complete ecosystem more than a simple product, this is simple to discover when we analyze how we can now integrate Python, R , etc inside of SQL Server. I believe that the road will be focus on subset, the specialization, is part of our challenge to recognize what of these subsets is the best for us, taking account our skills-desire-career objectives. We can not be naive and think that we will be able to cover the complete product (as MS SQL Server), and probably the same is happening with other SQL product as Oracle. -
+1. And now there's XML, JSON, Graph Database features, SQLCLR, in-memory tables and views, etc, etc. Add to the hosting options: Docker, Linux, GKE, Rackspace (et al). And this is one product in the stack that's either cloud-native or on-prem. Then there's ORMs, event workflows, the plethora of hosting and client-side options and form factors, technologies, and ecosystems. It's truly a wonderful and horrifying time to be a developer.
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These days I think it is possible to be an expert in only a subset of the SQL Server product. I am beginning to think that it may only be possible to be an expert in a subset of the BI parts of the product!
In addition we have SQL Server in AWS as either RDS (preferably avoid self installed options) and SQL Server in Azure.
I am curious to know what your opinions on this are and what opportunities and headaches this causes Redgate? Exploring this further even Microsoft itself is emphatically not a Microsoft only shop.
This feels both exciting but also rather scary. If I can only learn a subset of SQL Server then how on earth do I keep track of everything I seem to need to know these days?