What Kind of DBA Are You?
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Please check one of more of the boxes that describe the type of DBA that you consider yourself to be.
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The percentages are a bit funny. At this particular time, 8 of 8 of the respondents selected "Production Support/Admin" but the numbers are all handled as single votes so it only looks like a bit less than half the people are "Production Support/Admin" when, in reality, they all are.
--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
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Wouldn't this be database professional? Why are we all lobbed under DBA's! 😛
I'm always telling people I'm not a DBA dangit.
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Jeff Moden (8/31/2015)
The percentages are a bit funny. At this particular time, 8 of 8 of the respondents selected "Production Support/Admin" but the numbers are all handled as single votes so it only looks like a bit less than half the people are "Production Support/Admin" when, in reality, they all are.Unless most of the respondants function as more than just one thing?
They've all got "Production Support/Admin" as part of their job, with doing development etc as well?
I'm probably the outlier so far, as I'm (I think) only a "Production Support/Admin" DBA. No development work, no BI, ETL, etc...
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We call "Production Support/Admin" simply Operations.
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unfortunately I am a jack of all - master of nothing.
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jasona.work (9/1/2015)
Jeff Moden (8/31/2015)
The percentages are a bit funny. At this particular time, 8 of 8 of the respondents selected "Production Support/Admin" but the numbers are all handled as single votes so it only looks like a bit less than half the people are "Production Support/Admin" when, in reality, they all are.Unless most of the respondants function as more than just one thing?
They've all got "Production Support/Admin" as part of their job, with doing development etc as well?
I'm probably the outlier so far, as I'm (I think) only a "Production Support/Admin" DBA. No development work, no BI, ETL, etc...
Yep... get that. My point was that although many of us marked various areas, 100% of us had marked "Production Support/Admin" but it was only listed as 46%. I guess it's just how you want to look at it. There's no way that one should come to the conclusion that only 46% said that they were "Production Support/Admin" DBAs.
--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) -
BrainDonor (9/1/2015)
What's the difference between 'None of the above' and 'Other'?Also curious what is the difference between "Development" and "Development DBA".
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Sean Lange (9/2/2015)
BrainDonor (9/1/2015)
What's the difference between 'None of the above' and 'Other'?Also curious what is the difference between "Development" and "Development DBA".
I understand it as coder and debugger. 😀
Well, maybe Development refers to developers that happen to use SQL Server, while Development DBA refers to people in charge of the code and performance of SQL Server. Would that make sense?
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Luis Cazares (9/2/2015)
Sean Lange (9/2/2015)
BrainDonor (9/1/2015)
What's the difference between 'None of the above' and 'Other'?Also curious what is the difference between "Development" and "Development DBA".
I understand it as coder and debugger. 😀
Well, maybe Development refers to developers that happen to use SQL Server, while Development DBA refers to people in charge of the code and performance of SQL Server. Would that make sense?
It does but...if Development refers to a developer that happens to use SQL Server they aren't a DBA at all. That would be like asking what kind of watermelon your dog is. 😛
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Need help? Help us help you.
Read the article at http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Best+Practices/61537/ for best practices on asking questions.
Need to split a string? Try Jeff Modens splitter http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Tally+Table/72993/.
Cross Tabs and Pivots, Part 1 – Converting Rows to Columns - http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/T-SQL/63681/
Cross Tabs and Pivots, Part 2 - Dynamic Cross Tabs - http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Crosstab/65048/
Understanding and Using APPLY (Part 1) - http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/APPLY/69953/
Understanding and Using APPLY (Part 2) - http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/APPLY/69954/ -
I ticked 4 boxes to cover my job. DBA for both development and production, SSxS developer and ASP.NET developer
That's this month - in a month or two it could be "None of These" as we'll all be redundant 🙁
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I'm currently Production, but I was previously a DevOps DBA, which was a lot more interesting (to me).
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I checked "Other" for the systems design part - network, encryption, hardware, storage, etc. design.
Beyond that, like it seems most of us, I checked a few - I assumed Development included mostly applications development, while Development DBA included mostly admin-type development (backups, restores, index maintenance, monitoring, scripting out objects, automatic object generation, etc.).
I think one big takeaway is, as always, the terms themselves are subjective - I was surprised not to see Systems DBA on there, personally.
ETA: I assumed "None of the above" are for lurkers, .NET developers, and early stage accidental DBA's that don't consider themselves to have moved into another category yet 🙂
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Sean Lange (9/2/2015)
Luis Cazares (9/2/2015)
Sean Lange (9/2/2015)
BrainDonor (9/1/2015)
What's the difference between 'None of the above' and 'Other'?Also curious what is the difference between "Development" and "Development DBA".
I understand it as coder and debugger. 😀
Well, maybe Development refers to developers that happen to use SQL Server, while Development DBA refers to people in charge of the code and performance of SQL Server. Would that make sense?
It does but...if Development refers to a developer that happens to use SQL Server they aren't a DBA at all. That would be like asking what kind of watermelon your dog is. 😛
I had the same question, and agree that "Developer" meaning "T-SQL Developer" is a non-DBA category.
BTW my watermelon is a cat - or is that the other way around. 😉
- webrunner
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Ref.: http://tkyte.blogspot.com/2009/02/sql-joke.html
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