September 7, 2009 at 2:10 pm
Programmer / network Admin I guess.... I am not good for anything else. I am a lazy bugger..:hehe:
-Roy
September 7, 2009 at 2:52 pm
No databases but development?? Come on guys and gals, what kind of applications should that be? The whole world of developers create things like calculators or screen savers? 😛
I'm no DBA, but a developer. I really don't know how it should be possible to create real business applications without any databases.
Probably I would do the same thing as my dad did, being construction engineer.
September 8, 2009 at 5:37 am
I would probably be back to being an accountant, although I can't imagine how much work that would be without databases. Otherwise, I would want to retire and learn how to be a machinist.
September 8, 2009 at 7:28 am
Florian Reischl (9/7/2009)
No databases but development?? Come on guys and gals, what kind of applications should that be? The whole world of developers create things like calculators or screen savers? 😛I'm no DBA, but a developer. I really don't know how it should be possible to create real business applications without any databases.
Probably I would do the same thing as my dad did, being construction engineer.
The world would store their data in flat text files or excel spreadsheets lol :hehe:
September 8, 2009 at 7:46 am
SQL Iron Chef (9/8/2009)
The world would store their data in flat text files or excel spreadsheets lol :hehe:
Wouldn't exist, too. CSV and Excel are just a lousy kind of a database ;-).
September 8, 2009 at 9:56 am
Florian Reischl (9/8/2009)
SQL Iron Chef (9/8/2009)
The world would store their data in flat text files or excel spreadsheets lol :hehe:Wouldn't exist, too. CSV and Excel are just a lousy kind of a database ;-).
All too often that is true. Even better is when the database is just a different type of spreadsheet:w00t:
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September 8, 2009 at 10:06 am
CirquedeSQLeil (9/8/2009)
Florian Reischl (9/8/2009)
SQL Iron Chef (9/8/2009)
The world would store their data in flat text files or excel spreadsheets lol :hehe:Wouldn't exist, too. CSV and Excel are just a lousy kind of a database ;-).
All too often that is true. Even better is when the database is just a different type of spreadsheet:w00t:
I been in environments where they tried to flatten databases like spreadsheets :pinch:
it made it difficult when people updated data and then end up having duplicate but conflicting data :unsure:
September 8, 2009 at 10:13 am
I find that the most interesting part of this thread is that most people are answering with an alternate IT-driven profession. Is this because systems are their passion or simply the default career path they've chosen?
If not for being a DBA/developer, I'd be a contractor by now. Having something tangible at the end of the day is appealing after working in the ethereal data world for so long.
Regards,
Michael Lato
September 8, 2009 at 10:13 am
Florian Reischl (9/7/2009)
No databases but development?? Come on guys and gals, what kind of applications should that be? The whole world of developers create things like calculators or screen savers? 😛
Games, of course. 😉
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September 9, 2009 at 1:27 am
I'd prefer to be digging my garden, extending my house and sailing my boats and working on the "leisure" websites I look after - oh no, some of that needs databases!
Someone suggested exotic male dancer - an ex-colleague did the reverse - was a male dancer and became a developer!
September 9, 2009 at 10:29 am
Hmm.. I started as a developer, and moved to DB's which I enjoy far more.
For personal satisfaction, I would work on being an author, with more seriousness.
For paying bills... back to developing in VB.
September 9, 2009 at 10:43 am
Personally I would practise and teach ikebana. Not sure I would earn enough from it to live decently, though! 😉
Have a nice day!
September 9, 2009 at 12:08 pm
Maybe I will go back to my singing...:D
-Roy
September 9, 2009 at 1:00 pm
Roy Ernest (9/9/2009)
Maybe I will go back to my singing...:D
Please don't.......:w00t:
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September 9, 2009 at 1:57 pm
we could always be full time college students for life 😎 where's the party at!? :w00t:
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