well, hey, thanks for the replies. I'm little less embarassed now.

I've been doing some digging on this but there doesn't seem to be a lot of info. I've seen in...

Antares hit the nail on the head IMO.

I was on the other side of this the other day (the goofy user who found a bug).

We're bringing a Cognos/Oracle based BI...

My concern is that currently T-SQL provides a barrier to entry, if you will, for the average procedural language developer. IMO that is a good thing. I know too many...

Maybe this should be another topic, but what does everybody think of .NET for stored procedures?

Is anyone drooling at the thought of creating their next sp's in VB or VB...

I'm working at making small changes, but the biggest so far is reclaiming ~25GB of wasted log space. This saved us from going out and buying more disks we didn't...

I have local admin rights on our Department's servers (database, file and web)but do not have access to the server room. When I need physical access to the machines I...

Oh, BTW, I forgot to answer your original question - how I got here!

You guessed it - some programming in school, but main education and first 5 years of career...

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I think you will start to see more people that take a DBA class and then become a DBA.

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