Thank you for the welcome.

I remember I started by knowing very little about databases. My first thought was, basically, aha, a glorified struct in which to store my persistent data for my web application, with a complicated and annoying interface to get the data I want. My poor Computer Science friend facepalmed at my complete over-simplification of his entire database module. In retrospect, I have immense sympathy for him...

And yey, bug squishing.