First off, here's a little background on me. I do have a degree in the IT field but my main focus was on computer hardware and networking. I did take a few programming classes but they were really basic stuff, mostly cut and paste. I never really enjoyed programming because I just wasn't that good in it.
Anyways, last week my asst director/programmer handed off to me all the responsibilities of creating and updating our SQL Server databases. I did express my lack of knowledge of the subject but he insisted that I little to no programming was involved and he'll guide me through. Two of the other guys in the department already declined. Without much thinking I told him I'll give it a shot.
After a week of reading various books and going over with him on some basic stuff I still don't get this stuff. My lack of enjoyment of programming isn't helping either. I've read and re-read things 3 or 4 times yet the concepts just aren't sinking in. I'll give it one more week and if things don't get better I'm going to ask him that I'm just not the right guy for that job. Also after just 1 week he wants me to reverse engineer a Access database and see how it works and how things are being linked already.
Anyways, last week my asst director/programmer handed off to me all the responsibilities of creating and updating our SQL Server databases. I did express my lack of knowledge of the subject but he insisted that I little to no programming was involved and he'll guide me through. Two of the other guys in the department already declined. Without much thinking I told him I'll give it a shot.
After a week of reading various books and going over with him on some basic stuff I still don't get this stuff. My lack of enjoyment of programming isn't helping either. I've read and re-read things 3 or 4 times yet the concepts just aren't sinking in. I'll give it one more week and if things don't get better I'm going to ask him that I'm just not the right guy for that job. Also after just 1 week he wants me to reverse engineer a Access database and see how it works and how things are being linked already.