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When i started all developers had sysadmin to run Profiler and to pull/store profiler results on a db the server..atleast those were the reasons given. Further reasoning...we will drop...
May 4, 2011 at 8:09 am
Where do you think those of us who are victims to this outsourcing stuff can go? When there is a clear separation of operational duties versus tuning and other more...
May 2, 2011 at 11:56 am
crainlee2 (4/29/2011)
From my experience, a DBA is often not hired until a database server is "on fire". At that point, it doesn't have one problem, it has 50, and it...
May 2, 2011 at 11:33 am
Jaysen Courmac (4/28/2011)
PhilM99 (4/28/2011)
I haven't met many DBAs who are content with doing nothing but administration (though I know they're out there).
Depends on how much 'administration'...am one of those...
April 28, 2011 at 11:13 am
Thank you, yes that makes sense. I guess also these things go in cycles...i worked for a small shop a while ago...it was fun in many ways but i got...
April 28, 2011 at 9:11 am
The days when projects need DB Review are long gone...would be nice if companies realized and kept data architects but a lot of them don't. in most places have developers...
April 28, 2011 at 7:33 am
I used to do a lot of development work alongside dba work before I got this job as production dba. Before I came here the dbas thought it below them...
April 28, 2011 at 7:19 am
Joe Lax, former MVP who also used to run NYC PASS Chapter owned a company that did remote DBA service. I think it was called dbdirections.com. I think it is...
April 4, 2011 at 6:00 pm
Got out of bed quite determined Steve's joke will not get me today...i fell pretty bad for it last time (PASS taken over by Microsoft). Great attempt, as long as...
April 1, 2011 at 11:39 am
I would probably say if i stopped working tomorrow i'd still be interested in database technology and how it evolves. SQL Server per se...am not so sure..bcoz sql is a...
March 23, 2011 at 6:51 am
I would step back a little and see why..SQL Server is a commercial product. If i were teaching Shakespeare or Music say, for a living,and someone asked me same question..probably...
March 22, 2011 at 8:19 pm
It depends strongly on business needs. I work in healthcare, we need systems up 24x7 and people's lives literally depend on them, so Kimberly's statement is a valid one for...
January 7, 2011 at 11:55 am
I have signed up for one of the sqlskills trainings for next year and look forward to it. I am doing it more for the knowledge and less for the...
December 27, 2010 at 12:06 pm
In many cases I have seen misleading blog posts or replies have their origins in some paper or information published by MS itself and not cleared up later. I have...
December 22, 2010 at 6:34 am
Let me start by saying am already able to work reasonably well remotely, with a company supplied laptop and a wireless aircard to use when necessary. Am also fortunate to...
December 13, 2010 at 11:27 am
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