My hiring director left my title up to me, but he suggested "Grand Poobah of Data" -- subtle, humble, yet descriptive. I settled for the traditional DBA. Less...

How many companies can work successfully for a day...

Oh wait...that's 60 years...

Better luck next time.

Congrats on your purchase of a 1951 Porsche 356 Speedster!

Man, that must have cost a pretty penny...

:pinch: You're right! One for SS DBs and one for Oracle! Whew. Almost had my requisition filled out....cross...

At one job, IT was "re-engineered" and I was moved to Corporate in another building. But not everyone liked that idea, so I had to switch desks between two...

Steve Jones - SSC Editor (3/25/2011)

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The licensing for features, which I've thought about before, might be nice, but it would be a crazy system to administer. Plus, how would you...

Y'all should just thank your lucky stars you don't have to deal with Oracle licensing.

Per processor licensing? Sure! Now we just have to define what a "processor" is...

I may get my official membership in BAARF revoked, but in Oracle SQL tests in spring '09 with a then-new midrange IBM POWER6 server and DS-series SANs connected by dual...

How many of you have implemented/installed software that "requires" one or more of the following to work:

1) "sa" as the login

2) Default unchangeable login names that can be...

Since our ERP is Oracle and we had purchased the unreasonably expensive Grid Control (nee "OEM") license packs, I evaluated the SQL Server management plugin for Grid Control. It's...

The Internet has spawned a whole generation of lazy techs that inadvertently follow this flowchart:

http://xkcd.com/627/

(BTW, a regularly brilliant and funny comic)

I wonder what they'd do with the "orange wall" of...

I think the study is highly suspect from a technical POV:

Study participants reported that on average a Database Administrator (DBA) could manage over 30 Microsoft SQL Server databases, while Oracle...

But only if you're...

That's a different day:

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