July 17, 2020 at 4:04 pm
We are recruiting for a user study where you will be presented with some design prototypes for a database management console and asked for your opinion about what you see and your interactions with them.
We are looking for participants with experience in database management. No preparation is necessary.
The user study will take 1.5 hour and will be conducted virtually through Microsoft Teams.
Upon completion of the user study, you will receive some cool swag. This will also be a great opportunity to help shape the direction of a tool for your fellow database architects!
Proceed to this questionnaire to sign up.
July 17, 2020 at 8:08 pm
I signed up! I'm always curious about new DBA tools. Survey was a bit vague with some things. Like do you prefer the GUI or CLI. Would you consider writing TSQL in SSMS to be CLI or GUI? I could argue that SSMS is a GUI tool so therefore it is not CLI. BUT the query I build up could be run from the CLI just as easily as from the GUI. The GUI advantage is intellisense (or SQL Prompt). But I could also write the query in NOTEPAD.
I am just not sure what the survey considers "GUI". What I mean here is I wouldn't use the GUI to create a database for example, as TSQL is faster and repeatable so I can replicate database settings across multiple instances (prod, test, dev, qa, etc). But I'm still using SSMS. I generally consider CLI to be from the command prompt or powershell.
The above is all just my opinion on what you should do.
As with all advice you find on a random internet forum - you shouldn't blindly follow it. Always test on a test server to see if there is negative side effects before making changes to live!
I recommend you NEVER run "random code" you found online on any system you care about UNLESS you understand and can verify the code OR you don't care if the code trashes your system.
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