March 11, 2011 at 4:58 am
DBA - Does Bu**er All
as some of my co-workers try to tell me 😛
March 11, 2011 at 8:55 am
DBA - Don't Believe Anyone.
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March 11, 2011 at 9:14 am
Brandie Tarvin (3/11/2011)
hor_netuk (3/11/2011)
My experience. - At interview, the technical interviewer expressed dislike of acronym use. The non-technical interviewer replied, "funnily enough, I didn't know what DBA stood for until you applied for the post to be created." I think you can guess my job title. 🙂DBA - Doing Business As
When people find out I'm a DBA, I get the "doing business as what, exactly?" question way too often.
I get that too. They find my job title is "DBA <company name here>" and assume I'm self-employed.
Half of them don't understand the job title even if I don't use the acronym, so it doesn't seem to matter much which way I go on that.
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March 11, 2011 at 9:15 am
Ian Scarlett (3/11/2011)
DBA - Does Bu**er Allas some of my co-workers try to tell me 😛
And here I thought the usual insult on it was "Database A**hole".
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March 11, 2011 at 9:41 am
I usually have called myself the data janitor. Makes people laugh and disarms them a bit from the last DBA being too self-important.
March 11, 2011 at 9:48 am
GSquared (3/11/2011)
Ian Scarlett (3/11/2011)
DBA - Does Bu**er Allas some of my co-workers try to tell me 😛
And here I thought the usual insult on it was "Database A**hole".
That's certainly what some of my colleagues thought when I started forcing security changes and working towards removing rampant sa access to our production servers...
-Ki
March 11, 2011 at 10:51 am
I usually tell people I'm a database weenie, for the same reason.
I usually have called myself the data janitor. Makes people laugh and disarms them a bit from the last DBA being too self-important.
March 11, 2011 at 11:04 am
Hey Threadizens, I have a question that will be very simple for all of you but pretty hard for me since I am very weak with T-SQL. Please do share your thoughts. Performance is not an issue here since this is just a one time shot.
-Roy
March 11, 2011 at 11:08 am
I signed off two official design documents back at the bank as "Database Overlord". No one commented.
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March 11, 2011 at 11:09 am
Roy Ernest (3/11/2011)
Hey Threadizens, I have a question that will be very simple for all of you but pretty hard for me since I am very weak with T-SQL. Please do share your thoughts. Performance is not an issue here since this is just a one time shot.
Answered. Let me know if you have questions on how I coded it.
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March 11, 2011 at 11:10 am
GilaMonster (3/11/2011)
I signed off two official design documents back at the bank as "Database Overlord". No one commented.
I, for one, welcome our new reptilian overlords ....
(Now I can't remember where I first ran into that.)
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March 11, 2011 at 11:23 am
GSquared (3/11/2011)
GilaMonster (3/11/2011)
I signed off two official design documents back at the bank as "Database Overlord". No one commented.I, for one, welcome our new reptilian overlords ....
(Now I can't remember where I first ran into that.)
It's from the Simpsons. Kent Brockman keeps getting passed fake news announcements that something or other has taken over the world. "I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords."
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March 11, 2011 at 11:26 am
Grant Fritchey (3/11/2011)
GSquared (3/11/2011)
GilaMonster (3/11/2011)
I signed off two official design documents back at the bank as "Database Overlord". No one commented.I, for one, welcome our new reptilian overlords ....
(Now I can't remember where I first ran into that.)
It's from the Simpsons. Kent Brockman keeps getting passed fake news announcements that something or other has taken over the world. "I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords."
It is insects. They're covering a shuttle flight that Homer is on and he's cracked open an ant farm that's part of one of the science experiments on board. When they go to the shuttle camera and ant is right in front of the lens and looks huge. They cut the feed and Brockman welcomes our new Insect Overlords. Later he has a banner proclaiming the same behind him.
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When you encounter a problem, if the solution isn't readily evident go back to the start and check your assumptions.
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It’s unpleasantly like being drunk.
What’s so unpleasant about being drunk?
You ask a glass of water. -- Douglas Adams
March 11, 2011 at 11:27 am
GSquared (3/11/2011)
GilaMonster (3/11/2011)
I signed off two official design documents back at the bank as "Database Overlord". No one commented.I, for one, welcome our new reptilian overlords ....
(Now I can't remember where I first ran into that.)
Hm, might be from V, the original series. I haven't seen it in soo long though...
I'll usually tell people I'm the DataBase Annoyance until they realize I'm actually helpful... same reasons as above. A lot of folks I tend to follow have rocked the boat pretty hard instead of working with the business/coders to show why things should be done a certain way.
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March 11, 2011 at 11:34 am
Stefan Krzywicki (3/11/2011)
Grant Fritchey (3/11/2011)
GSquared (3/11/2011)
GilaMonster (3/11/2011)
I signed off two official design documents back at the bank as "Database Overlord". No one commented.I, for one, welcome our new reptilian overlords ....
(Now I can't remember where I first ran into that.)
It's from the Simpsons. Kent Brockman keeps getting passed fake news announcements that something or other has taken over the world. "I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords."
It is insects. They're covering a shuttle flight that Homer is on and he's cracked open an ant farm that's part of one of the science experiments on board. When they go to the shuttle camera and ant is right in front of the lens and looks huge. They cut the feed and Brockman welcomes our new Insect Overlords. Later he has a banner proclaiming the same behind him.
I'm pretty sure he did one on robots too... hang on...
Nope. I'm wrong. It's just insects on the Simpsons and everything else from the rest of the planet.
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