Thank you, and am sorry if the subject got heated, or I offended you in any way.

We dont boast of a great pub culture in the US of A but...

ok let me put it this way

1 I did explicitly say these definitions are company specifc, you made a claim that you and your fellow DBA do not agree...

In US we have two types of consultants broadly speaking - the 'body shopping' kind who are loaned out via outsourcing agencies and those that are really experts at what...

Really - what you say a DBA is is something of a world standard then?? I am a little put off to be honest, your definition is yours and other...

I beleive Steve put it most succintly - " Show that you solve lots of problems and that your skill AND experience level warrant the title." You may not care...

Yeah and I'd like to understand your POV also. How is freelancing different from consulting mainly is one thing i'd love to understand more. There are various levels of these...

Hi Silverfox, PASS 24 hours was not American, it was a virtual conference targeted all over the world. In fact majority attendees were from other parts of the world. I...

Grant, you missed a third category...the cynic..the guy who will just do the bare minimal to keep his job and keep envying others who do more, learn more and have...

One of the questions we have in interviews where I work is how do you keep up with technology outside of work. The answers can be as simple as reading...

There is a ton of free training available nowadays - PASS recently ran 24 hours of PASS which was 100% free training from top notch SQL celebrities. If you check...

Laptop - Yes, one personal and one from employer.

Desktop - No, dont need those any more

SQL Books - Enough to open a store

University - Yes but not related to...

Travel, garden and do social work especially helping sick kids. I am really baffled how some people say network admin or developer stuff, gosh that is geekish to me. Perhaps...

Yeah that is what i said...and where she works is not some mom and pop shop it is one of the country's leading healthcare providers. I have seen so many...

Just yesterday a friend of mine who is a DBA got severely reprimanded for doing what she thought was right. There were some programmers who wrote some bad code that...

I think it has more complexities than that...like when you report on what you perceive to be 'fraud' and then the concerned parties make up leaving you high and dry..have...