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Sarah Wagner
Sarah Wagner
Posted Wednesday, January 09, 2013 10:58 AM
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So I had a funny thing happen to me a few minutes ago and couldn't help but share...
QA Tester 11:54 AM
I have a BIG question for you of utmost importance
ME 11:55 AM
lol
QA Tester 11:55 AM
database is one word
yes?
ME 11:55 AM
yes
QA Tester 11:55 AM
so....
ME 11:55 AM
that is super important
QA Tester 11:55 AM
why do we have DBAs, and not DAs?
ME 11:55 AM
you know I have never pondered that before
QA Tester 11:55 AM
so we don't think you're part of the District Attorney's office?
ME 11:56 AM
rofl
QA Tester 11:56 AM
Ponder that one today!
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GSquared
GSquared
Posted Wednesday, January 09, 2013 11:43 AM
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Okay, so we don't get confused with District Attorneys, but people think my job title is "Doing Business As". Not much of an improvement.
But there are lots of cases for including a sub-word in an accronym or initialism. Just like you sometimes leave out minor words, like "of", (FBI, USA) and sometimes keep them in (SCOTUS, POTUS). It's kind of like how you capitalize the "D" in "MacDonald". It doesn't have to make sense, it just has to be accepted.
- Gus "GSquared", RSVP, OODA, MAP, NMVP, FAQ, SAT, SQL, DNA, RNA, UOI, IOU, AM, PM, AD, BC, BCE, USA, UN, CF, ROFL, LOL, ETC
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Grant Fritchey
Grant Fritchey
Posted Thursday, January 10, 2013 7:01 AM
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Was it always one word? Back in the day? Where's Jeff. He remembers the dawn of time. If it used to be Data Base, then DBA makes sense.
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Post #1405407
Jeff Moden
Jeff Moden
Posted Thursday, January 10, 2013 7:27 AM
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Grant Fritchey (1/10/2013)
Was it always one word? Back in the day? Where's Jeff. He remembers the dawn of time. If it used to be Data Base, then DBA makes sense.
Heh... yeah... back in the days of dinosaurs and Bill Gates could not yet spell "PC", it was two words. But, I think the real reason why they didn't go with "DA" is because that's also short for "Duck's A**" which was a hairstyle the bikers wore along with a pack of smokes rolled up in their T-Shirt sleeve.
Funny how things change... back then, bikers were the really clean cut folks.
--Jeff Moden
"
RBAR
is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for "
R
ow-
B
y-
A
gonizing-
R
ow".
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
Stop thinking about what you want to do to a row... think, instead, of what you want to do to a column."
For better, quicker answers on T-SQL questions, click on the following...
http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Best+Practices/61537/
For better answers on performance questions, click on the following...
http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/SQLServerCentral/66909/
Post #1405435
Cadavre
Cadavre
Posted Wednesday, January 16, 2013 4:57 AM
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A friend works somewhere with a DA (Data Administrator) in addition to three DBAs (Production, Development & Backup). All four are heads of small teams. Admittedly, I've never worked anywhere with this sort of set-up. But I've also not worked anywhere that was particularly large, so people wear many hats
Not a DBA, just trying to learn
For better, quicker answers on T-SQL questions, click on the following...
http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Best+Practices/61537/
For better, quicker answers on SQL Server performance related questions, click on the following...
http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/SQLServerCentral/66909/
If you litter your database queries with nolock query hints, are you aware of the side effects?
Try reading a few of these links...
(*)
Missing rows with nolock
(*)
Allocation order scans with nolock
(*)
Consistency issues with nolock
(*)
Transient Corruption Errors in SQL Server error log caused by nolock
(*)
Dirty reads, read errors, reading rows twice and missing rows with nolock
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Post #1407747
ACinKC
ACinKC
Posted Thursday, January 17, 2013 2:31 PM
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Back in the Dark Days of mainframes, VSAM, and JCL, a
DBA
was the guy getting called at 2:00am when something went poof. A
DA
was a Data Analyst who slaved over obscure data points to create a form of reality for upper management only to have his work go away when things went poof.
Post #1408620
bitbucket-25253
bitbucket-25253
Posted Thursday, January 17, 2013 4:28 PM
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In the 1965-1970 time frame data base gradually evolved to the now current useage database.
If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.
Ron
Please help us, help you -before posting a question please
read
Before posting a performance problem please
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