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If you can find a way to make KB organized then for sure it's better than simple Googling. Plus in many occurences I have to pull contents from quite a few webpages and put them under the same problem.

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Do you actually go back to your KB to look something up? I feel like having a KB is merely a way of reinforcing retention of new information.

Yeah I do, for example I constantly look up how to do percentiles in Vertica. Man I can never memorize these, so I have a KB of queries and imported most of them into Datagrip using live templates starting with '_' followed by name of database. Some of them are technical stuffs and some of them are business stuffs (like how to get this piece of info from the tables).

I have other KBs but yeah I agreed that I do not go back very often, maybe just in training sessions.

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