I would not Describe Edward Snowden as a hero - anyone who flies off to countries like RUssia and China with flash drives full of his countries espoinage secrets is...

No Gary - that's how things are - when you roll out changes you by their nature de-stabilise a system , ususally there is a good reason for doing so...

the problem is that the two are fundementally at odds - DBA promote stability and reliability , developers promote "Constructive destabilisaton"

"what will they think of next"

- Bureaucracy ! that's what http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_of_Hammurabi

I agree with the comment on "celebrities" but it isn't confined to 12 year olds - speaking from the UK persepctive it looks like we have embraced a "mayfly"...

I agree with djackson - it often seems that third party vendors allocate their budgets as follows - 75% sales 20% developemnt and (if you are lucky) 5% support...

In the end what is the cloud? inernal clouds may have an advantage in consolidating hardware costs etc but the public cloud is just the latest incarnation in the hosted...

Typed in a hurry - is that the best you can do?

so thise in the public sector boasting of their benefiots remember .. All paid for by the hard-working Private sector worker that doesn't jave a cushy final-salay pension to look...

Morning David

This must be a very American attitude - even the SME I started my career in offered paid training (although that was more as an incentive to stay as...

"It's also a young person's game. Once you have a family, not sure you can make those trade offs and feel good about it. "

Sorry - but I take exception...

I think that there is a difference between the first set of issues (developer access, backup failure etc) and not maintaining a current patch level.

Its like most things, down...

I Know - the "Sheldon Cooper" syndrome - even worse when you are a Junior DBA and he is senior

Treat others as you yourself would wish to be treated - a Biblical value that is timeless / cluture independent and works - beats psychobabble any day

Thanks Dan, very much appreciated