Are the posted questions getting worse?
- Brandie Tarvin wrote:
Interviewing for open position...
My boss: Rate your SQL skills & knowledge on a scale of 1 to 10.
Interviewee: 7 or 8
Me: Let's talk about backups and restores.
Interviewee: I have no experience with backups and restores.
Me: Okay, let's chat about security.
Interviewee: I don't know anything about security.
I just wanted to cry. I mean, really? The two basic fundamentals I believe ALL DBAs should know, especially one who rates their skills so high, and you don't know ANYTHING?
Is it just a me problem? Or does everyone else here expect at least a little knowledge in those areas for every hire?
If you want some real fun, ask them to explain the difference between a blocked process and a deadlock. I even spell the words block and deadlock, just to be clear I'm talking about two different, if related, things.
Yeah, the lack of knowledge out there can be stunning. Good/Bad news, it's not new. It's been like that for decades now.
"The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood"
- Theodore RooseveltAuthor of:
SQL Server Execution Plans
SQL Server Query Performance Tuning - Brandie Tarvin wrote:
Interviewing for open position...
My boss: Rate your SQL skills & knowledge on a scale of 1 to 10.
Interviewee: 7 or 8
Me: Let's talk about backups and restores.
Interviewee: I have no experience with backups and restores.
Me: Okay, let's chat about security.
Interviewee: I don't know anything about security.
I just wanted to cry. I mean, really? The two basic fundamentals I believe ALL DBAs should know, especially one who rates their skills so high, and you don't know ANYTHING?
Is it just a me problem? Or does everyone else here expect at least a little knowledge in those areas for every hire?
Application first
Pffffffff
Johan
Learn to play, play to learn !Dont drive faster than your guardian angel can fly ...
but keeping both feet on the ground wont get you anywhere :w00t:- How to post Performance Problems
- How to post data/code to get the best help[/url]- How to prevent a sore throat after hours of presenting ppt
press F1 for solution, press shift+F1 for urgent solution 😀
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Who am I ? Sometimes this is me but most of the time this is me
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The top of the next email I opened had this link:
https://www.madeiradata.com/post/resolving-preventing-deadlocks-sqlserver
412-977-3526 call/text
- Brandie Tarvin wrote:
Interviewing for open position...
My boss: Rate your SQL skills & knowledge on a scale of 1 to 10.
Interviewee: 7 or 8
Me: Let's talk about backups and restores.
Interviewee: I have no experience with backups and restores.
Me: Okay, let's chat about security.
Interviewee: I don't know anything about security.
I just wanted to cry. I mean, really? The two basic fundamentals I believe ALL DBAs should know, especially one who rates their skills so high, and you don't know ANYTHING?
Is it just a me problem? Or does everyone else here expect at least a little knowledge in those areas for every hire?
I would be channeling some Office Space interview energy at that point, "What would say you do know about SQL Server?"
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One has to laugh, RTO no longer stands for Recovery Time Objective, now it means Return To Office
😎
Those ever-changing meanings of common TLAs are giving me a headache.
Does anyone have an idea for RPO 😉
- Eirikur Eiriksson wrote:
Does anyone have an idea for RPO 😉
Return Porkchop Output
EDIT: Or Rebounding Porkchop Objective?
- Eirikur Eiriksson wrote:Brandie Tarvin wrote:Eirikur Eiriksson wrote:
Does anyone have an idea for RPO 😉
Return Porkchop Output
EDIT: Or Rebounding Porkchop Objective?
Any vegetarian options? 😎
Retour Pain Objet
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Please follow Best Practices For Posting On Forums to receive quicker and higher quality responses - jonathan.crawford wrote:Eirikur Eiriksson wrote:Brandie Tarvin wrote:Eirikur Eiriksson wrote:
Does anyone have an idea for RPO 😉
Return Porkchop Output
EDIT: Or Rebounding Porkchop Objective?
Any vegetarian options? 😎
Retour Pain Objet
Thinking of Radish Parsnip Oregano, makes "more sense" although it is absolutely pointless 😉
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Looks good on the Menu though.........
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Radish Parsnip Orecchiette.
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Oh boy. Here are my Christmas presents.
- Developer requests a service account for an ETL process. SECURITY takes it at face value, and creates one account and grants it permissions to all four environments, prod, dev, QA, and UAT. AND, they share the password with the dev team!
- A rogue admin created a folder on the drive reserved for the SQL data files on all 4 servers in a mission critical set of servers, all with highly sensitive data in the databases. Shares it to half of the world. It turned into the dumping ground. We get the alerts that the data drive is full on the prod server. Hmmmm. There wasn't that much activity over the weekend. Found almost 1 TB of .csv files that were exported out of the data warehouse. 'We wanted to test bulk insert and see how fast it would be".
- The infrastructure team decided that we do not need these file shares all over the place for everyone's "junk". They announced nothing, and blindly created new teams in Teams. Removed the shares, moved them to these newly created teams. Multiple production apps broke. Uh, ya think you could have given us a heads up so we could have a chance to fix the code? =
Once again, we got to be the folks with the shovel and broom following the horses in the parade! I want to be the horse next week!
Michael L John
If you assassinate a DBA, would you pull a trigger?
To properly post on a forum:
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Too much fun, Michael!
--Jeff Moden
RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
Helpful Links:
How to post code problems
How to Post Performance Problems
Create a Tally Function (fnTally) - ZZartin wrote:Brandie Tarvin wrote:
Interviewing for open position...
My boss: Rate your SQL skills & knowledge on a scale of 1 to 10.
Interviewee: 7 or 8
Me: Let's talk about backups and restores.
Interviewee: I have no experience with backups and restores.
Me: Okay, let's chat about security.
Interviewee: I don't know anything about security.
I just wanted to cry. I mean, really? The two basic fundamentals I believe ALL DBAs should know, especially one who rates their skills so high, and you don't know ANYTHING?
Is it just a me problem? Or does everyone else here expect at least a little knowledge in those areas for every hire?
I would be channeling some Office Space interview energy at that point, "What would say you do know about SQL Server?"
It has become a "thing". The Net/Ops groups for a lot of companies are responsible for all of that.
And, no... I'm not saying that's a good thing. 🙁
--Jeff Moden
RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
Helpful Links:
How to post code problems
How to Post Performance Problems
Create a Tally Function (fnTally) - Jeff Moden wrote:
It has become a "thing". The Net/Ops groups for a lot of companies are responsible for all of that.
And, no... I'm not saying that's a good thing. 🙁
I know this pain. The external infrastructure company is in charge of the backups for one side of the business, and their "idea" of transaction log backups were to perform them 15 minutes before the full database backup; once a day...
When I asked them to change that, and have them completed every 15 minutes, they said that their "Leading Backup Solution" application was unable to do that; it could only do one backup a day.
So all the databases are now in SIMPLE mode, and there's nothing I can do about it until we get rid of them, or they change their backup solution.
Thom~
Excuse my typos and sometimes awful grammar. My fingers work faster than my brain does.
Larnu.uk - Brandie Tarvin wrote:Eirikur Eiriksson wrote:
Does anyone have an idea for RPO 😉
Return Porkchop Output
EDIT: Or Rebounding Porkchop Objective?
--Jeff Moden
RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
Helpful Links:
How to post code problems
How to Post Performance Problems
Create a Tally Function (fnTally)
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