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Old 10-20-2010
Surviving in the business world - which tools to know

Hello everyone,
I have been in the corporate world for a couple of years now, and I have realized that most successful/semi-productive people are those that are a hybrid between technically proficient in Visualbasic/Access while at the same time in the corporate sphere, meaning Powerpoints and "management". The management part aside, I would like to know, which tools, in your experience have been consistent in lending you a helping hand to set yourself apart from the rest of the average working crowd.

Example: we have a configuration management database (cmdb) which is in really bad shape, it is not very well maintained for various reasons. The management sphere knows this, and can complain about, but has no real measure. The technical sphere knows this as well, but is, well, too technical. The "hybrids" I talked about, they are in charge of an "improvement program" that has been setup by the management sphere. The average hybrid will create a couple of powerpoints, process documentation and muck around manually or with Excel with a cmdb export to see trends. The really efficient hybrid will do the stuff, but he will also use certain tools, in this example Visual Basic, to get some real numbers out of a cmdb export, to say: x percent of the data field "address" is empty, etc.

I am not too keen on learning Visual Basic, because I believe the Unix tools are a lot more powerful, thus I prefer to invest my time in Unix.

For those of you who can relate to my situation, do you agree, or should I just learn Visual Basic?

If you agree, what are the tools you recommend learning? Here's what I have thought about (in the order of importance):

- perl
- SQL
- awk
- php

Thanks for your ideas and insights!

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