If you weren't a DBA, what would you be doing?

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If you weren't a DBA, what would you be doing?

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Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004406 More actions · Answer 1

Heh... it's funny. If you look back at all the alternatives that folks have listed, a DBA pretty much has to have all those skills combined.

--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)

Arsh SSCertifiable Points: 6354 More actions · Answer 2

robin.pryor - Tuesday, September 5, 2017 8:32 AM
Where to start:
College history professor - specifically along the lines of world religions and sociology (I'm atheist btw)

Its very ironical ! 🙂

Alan Burstein SSC Guru Points: 61141 More actions · Answer 3

I'm not a DBA anymore (SQL Developer.) In high school I was studying to be an artist but chickened out only because of fear that I would not make any money. I love what I do now but sometimes regret not perusing art. That said, real SQL Developers are artists IMO

"I cant stress enough the importance of switching from a sequential files mindset to set-based thinking. After you make the switch, you can spend your time tuning and optimizing your queries instead of maintaining lengthy, poor-performing code."

-- Itzik Ben-Gan 2001