Recruiting is expensive both timewise and monetary.  Coming up with a good recruitment methodology is an art as much as it is a science.  I've seen weak interviewees being star...

The last job application I undertook required 2 interviews and then, prior tor the 3rd interview I had  to prepare a 40 minute presentation based on high level and sparse...

The problem with that is that the people looking at the costs start telling you to not run as many queries, or to use less storage, even though that's...

I work for a consultancy and we are expected to have a certain % of staff certified as part of our technology partnership contracts.

When we put out to tender our...

I work for a consultancy and we are expected to have a certain % of staff certified as part of our technology partnership contracts.

When we put out to tender our...

I think financial monitoring of cloud resources needs to be something that DBAs are aware of and participate in but not something that is their sole responsibility.  I think there...

A common theme is that there is a minimum number of people needed for a support rota.  Below that and you risk burn-outs and resignations.

When I was a DBA in a team we shared the on-call rota.  We were given a specific mobile phone when we were on-call.

Senior DBAs would be a 2nd line...

My last company did a lot of engineering and testing. One thing they found is that most computer hardware failures occurred during startup. Evidently computers can just run forever,...

This is a timely repost.  The longer you leave upgrading

1. The more convoluted the upgrade path will become and with it the risk associated with upgrades.
2. The more likely that...

I take your point though I  think you are mistaking refactoring for something...

One of the practises that contribute to agile development (not Agile TM) is constant refactoring of team processes, code..etc to design out failure points.

I do a lot of refactoring work...

My company rents a WeWork office in Manchester(UK).  I've gone in and been the only one there but mostly there are between 3 and 6 people in, sometimes more.

The We...

I get Steve's point of view.  I'm an introvert but I have discovered that I have limits.  It doesn't do me good to be WFH 100%.

My team tend to arrange...

The tip about not working from Slack/Teams/Outlook is gold!

At home I have two monitors plus the laptop screen.  Sometimes the work I do needs those 3 screens and with Slack,...