• Ed Wagner (10/6/2015)


    Grant Fritchey (10/6/2015)


    Michael L John (10/6/2015)


    Ed Wagner (10/6/2015)


    BWFC (10/6/2015)


    Sadly, I see that exact situation all the time.

    I can't get my head around that kind of attitude, particularly when there'e so much to learn. Like you say, sad.

    Yeah, I can't either. It's like there's no drive to learn anything new. I actually enjoy learning new things and new ways to accomplishing things more efficiently.

    Last weekends SQL Saturday was full of free training. Not to mention the large amounts of beer afterwards. I "advertised" this to everyone repeatedly in multiple departments.

    Nobody showed. Its far easier to throw problems at the DBA!

    The company where I used to work sent 3-5 people to the PASS Summit every year and there were 3 of us running a local user group where we regularly had 6-8 people from the company in attendance. I left. Now no one goes to Summit and no one goes to the local user group. It's frightening just how little interest people have in their career. However, for the vast majority of people, it's 9-5 and they're done. Any learning has to be company motivated and company supplied on company time. Then of course, they wonder why Peggy got promoted and they didn't. I'm sure it has nothing to do with Peggy doing lots of additional learning on her own time.

    I think that statement about sums it up, but I can't imagine the reasoning behind it. It defies all logic and rational thought. Then again, maybe logic and rational thought are too subjective. In most cases, SQL can be taught if the recipient wants to learn. So very much is about attitude. Lighting a fire under someone only lasts so long before the fire burns out. Intrinsic motivation can be learned, but cannot be taught.

    It's not just SQL. It's development, networking, storage, and everything.

    There just seems to have been this shift from getting it done right the first time to just getting something done.

    Having recently changed positions, it's been refreshing that the folks in my group actually work hard at "being better".

    Michael L John
    If you assassinate a DBA, would you pull a trigger?
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