Last month I got the opportunity to spend an hour with the Database Programming I class at Irmo High School (Irmo, SC). I talked about my career in technology, and I presented some challenges that I have faced in using databases. My dear friend Randy Mecca is obviously doing a great job of helping the students learn how to use database technology, because they demonstrated excellent insight when I posed some tough questions I had encountered while normalizing a table with hundreds of columns. I shared...