February 1, 2012 at 7:18 am
Evil Kraig F (1/31/2012)
Jeff Moden (1/31/2012)
Brandie Tarvin (1/31/2012)
Of all the skills a DBA should have, I'm beginning to think a healthy dose of paranoia should be on the required list. Agree? Disagree?It's a frequent story amongst DBAs. The 11th Commandment is "Though shalt not kill data." 😛
Even more fun is a take I did on Azimov's 3 laws of robotics for DBAs. I'll see if I can find it again. I whole heartedly agree with Craig, though... it's not paranoia... it's protecting everyone's butt even if they don't know it needs protecting yet.
Something like:
A
robotDBA may not injure data or, through inaction, allow data to come to harm.A
robotDBA must obey the orders given to it by managers, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.A
robotDBA must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with HIPAA, SOX.That sounded better in my head, but SOX overrides the managers, so it loses the whole 'previous law' thing.
Reverse the sequence of the last two? SUCKS and HIPPO override managers. (There should be a word for an intentional typo.)
- Gus "GSquared", RSVP, OODA, MAP, NMVP, FAQ, SAT, SQL, DNA, RNA, UOI, IOU, AM, PM, AD, BC, BCE, USA, UN, CF, ROFL, LOL, ETC
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February 1, 2012 at 7:22 am
GSquared (2/1/2012)
(There should be a word for an intentional typo.)
I am writer. Hear me roar!
I shall invent a word...
It's a "delpo" which means "deliberate typo". (Sounds better than intpo.)
EDIT: WHOOPS. Delpo is actually someone's name... I need to work harder on this..
February 1, 2012 at 7:28 am
Brandie Tarvin (2/1/2012)
MysteryJimbo (2/1/2012)
Koen Verbeeck (1/31/2012)
Brandie Tarvin (1/31/2012)
Of all the skills a DBA should have, I'm beginning to think a healthy dose of paranoia should be on the required list. Agree? Disagree?Agree.
Just because you're paranoid, don't mean they're not after you.
Coincedence?
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Agree totally.
Wow. How did I miss that one? Love it!
Nice...
Wayne
Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server 2008
Author - SQL Server T-SQL Recipes
February 1, 2012 at 7:58 am
Brandie Tarvin (1/31/2012)
Of all the skills a DBA should have, I'm beginning to think a healthy dose of paranoia should be on the required list. Agree? Disagree?
Disagree; a dose of paranoia sufficiently large to be of help to a DBA is more than sufficiently large to be unhealthy.
Tom
February 1, 2012 at 8:38 am
HowardW (2/1/2012)
Is this guy annoying the hell out of anyone else?Not sure whether to call it spam or not, but most of his posts wouldn't pass the Turing Test.
Looks like a language-barrier thing to me. At least mostly that.
- Gus "GSquared", RSVP, OODA, MAP, NMVP, FAQ, SAT, SQL, DNA, RNA, UOI, IOU, AM, PM, AD, BC, BCE, USA, UN, CF, ROFL, LOL, ETC
Property of The Thread
"Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everyone agrees it's old enough to know better." - Anon
February 1, 2012 at 8:52 am
GSquared (2/1/2012)
HowardW (2/1/2012)
Is this guy annoying the hell out of anyone else?Not sure whether to call it spam or not, but most of his posts wouldn't pass the Turing Test.
Looks like a language-barrier thing to me. At least mostly that.
I'm not sure there's anything wrong here. That's his only post, and it seems he/she is trying to lay out an issue. Can I ask what's annoying?
February 1, 2012 at 8:54 am
Steve Jones - SSC Editor (2/1/2012)
GSquared (2/1/2012)
HowardW (2/1/2012)
Is this guy annoying the hell out of anyone else?Not sure whether to call it spam or not, but most of his posts wouldn't pass the Turing Test.
Looks like a language-barrier thing to me. At least mostly that.
I'm not sure there's anything wrong here. That's his only post, and it seems he/she is trying to lay out an issue. Can I ask what's annoying?
I think Howard's talking about the other guy - http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/UserInfo1010821.aspx
Little confusing, but not that bad. Looks like very quick replies.
Gail Shaw
Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverability
February 1, 2012 at 9:00 am
HowardW (2/1/2012)
Is this guy annoying the hell out of anyone else?Not sure whether to call it spam or not, but most of his posts wouldn't pass the Turing Test.
Not having looked at his other posts, that post alone leads me to believe that English is his second language and he's having trouble with his adjectives, adverbs and the specific translation of technical terms.
February 1, 2012 at 9:02 am
everyone keep an eye on Tom, if his avatar becomes inverted, it's time to get out of the mine...
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February 1, 2012 at 9:05 am
GSquared (2/1/2012)
HowardW (2/1/2012)
Is this guy annoying the hell out of anyone else?Not sure whether to call it spam or not, but most of his posts wouldn't pass the Turing Test.
Looks like a language-barrier thing to me. At least mostly that.
You mean johnitech.itech maybe doesn't understand the topics he's responding on? Or maybe doesn't understand the articles he's linking in his responses?
I don't see any spam there, but I also don't see anything useful either (e.g. a link to a boring SQL 2000 merge replication overview article isn't going to help anyone troubleshoot an SQL 2008 R2 Merge problem) and all his posts (as far as I've checked) seem to be either unhelpful links or unhelpful something else. I suppose it could be a language problem (he's said "I don't understand" at least once) but it doesn't really seem to fit a language problem pattern.
Tom
February 1, 2012 at 9:07 am
jcrawf02 (2/1/2012)
everyone keep an eye on Tom, if his avatar becomes inverted, it's time to get out of the mine...
I noticed that. I was trying to figure out what he was planning. Or who switched his avatar on him. @=)
February 1, 2012 at 9:16 am
Brandie Tarvin (2/1/2012)
jcrawf02 (2/1/2012)
everyone keep an eye on Tom, if his avatar becomes inverted, it's time to get out of the mine...I noticed that. I was trying to figure out what he was planning. Or who switched his avatar on him. @=)
Oh, I was planning to pick an avatar to fit where I mostly live, and as I couldn't find a picture of a rabbit-hunter I went for the next best thing (and changed the tag in my sig to something very local to match the avatar).
But now I'm wondering whether I should switch from the positive to the negative and/or rotate it 180 degrees or do something else nefarious to interrupt treacle production (treacle production will definitely suffer if everyone gets out of he treacle mine); but I suspect it wouldn't work (although I'm grateful for jc's suggestion).
Tom
February 1, 2012 at 9:17 am
Steve Jones - SSC Editor (2/1/2012)
GSquared (2/1/2012)
HowardW (2/1/2012)
Is this guy annoying the hell out of anyone else?Not sure whether to call it spam or not, but most of his posts wouldn't pass the Turing Test.
Looks like a language-barrier thing to me. At least mostly that.
I'm not sure there's anything wrong here. That's his only post, and it seems he/she is trying to lay out an issue. Can I ask what's annoying?
Sorry folks, was talking about the person replying rather than the OP. All his posts just seem to point to an article that's barely relevant to the topic.
February 1, 2012 at 9:22 am
HowardW (2/1/2012)
Steve Jones - SSC Editor (2/1/2012)
GSquared (2/1/2012)
HowardW (2/1/2012)
Is this guy annoying the hell out of anyone else?Not sure whether to call it spam or not, but most of his posts wouldn't pass the Turing Test.
Looks like a language-barrier thing to me. At least mostly that.
I'm not sure there's anything wrong here. That's his only post, and it seems he/she is trying to lay out an issue. Can I ask what's annoying?
Sorry folks, was talking about the person replying rather than the OP. All his posts just seem to point to an article that's barely relevant to the topic.
A million times yes. Fairly sure I could replace him with a reasonably small VB script :Whistling:
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