I am a little surprised I haven't seen any comments on the sentence, " I fear that when introverts are in the majority, communication suffers."  Almost makes me think you...

Short-term and long-term communications

I think the key phrase is "make an effort."  The clothes we wear are a non-verbal communication of making an effort.
If what we wear...

"One of the questions we always asked everyone was "What's the biggest mistake you've ever made in production?""

>>>>  This is my favourite question to ask interviewees.  I mention...

No need to specify all the columns when you only want to change one of them:

create table test9 (c1 number, c2 number, c3 varchar2(26), c4 varchar2(14) );

Table created.

alter table test9...

Ah! So we're sanitary engineers! 🙂

On a more serious note, I am very happy to see that the consensus is that we are not engineers.

I concur and I doubt...

Is this a time of dramatically fewer interruptions allowing focussed effort on a "project" or is it a sabbatical?

If it really is a sabbatical, you could start with the concept...

We have moved from backing up to local drives to using a UNC path to central storage. We haven't had any significant issues so far.

Some of the replies to...

"The DBA job is somewhat nebulous..."

And for those DBAs who find themselves working in the Cloud, the DBA job is very nebulous.

Some questions come to mind:

1.) If the purchased application is poorly designed or inadequately indexed, who made the decision to buy that software? The decision making process should...

I'm not a big fan of complexity where simplicity will do.

Having said that, multiplication and addition aren't exactly complex. It's being done thousands of times an hour at the...