What I have observed living as a DBA in the worlds of Sybase ASE, SQL Server, and Oracle:

Developers, for the most part, are focused on meeting functional specifications and deadlines...

I spent quite a bit of time on this. I found BOL to be less than useful (dated information). I never a number of posts that...

Run as admin = run as administrator on the server or something else?

I submit that if one were to ask "Who are you?" and the reply has something to do with "working as a SQL Server DBA or SQL Server database administrator"...

Where to begin?

If I lower my expectations and raise my commitment and address those things given directly into my hand then I can control things over which I have direct...

I've seen a recent post on hacking insulin pumps in order to hijack their control as well a survey of corporate infosec professionals (typically CISSPs) that they don't believe their...

s/b "...but you can't tell them much..."

I suspect that too many organizations have nothing written addressing a breach (what to do, who's to do it, contacts) and if they have something written, have never done a...

Check your system event log for anything resembling a hardware error referencing a controller or disk drives.

Here's an example:

"SCSI bus fault occurred on Storage Box box 0, , Port 0...

If business doesn't address the issue, government will address it.

If each CIO (or equivalent) were required to sign a statement on a 10-K that current patch levels had been met as of the document date, I suspect that more...

This is not unexpected. Ninety percent of the "Internet" in the U.S. is privately owned as opposed to when it was born and the federal government was the owner....

Have a plan, at least a generic outline of what you will do under given circumstances. It's a subset of what management should have in place for their business...

Yes, Unit Testing is important and necessary. Unfortunately, too many places I have been have not required developers to do unit testing, despite my recommendations to do so....

I agree with sjsubscribe regarding online searches as job candidate evaluation tools.