Great job, Steve! I bet you had a lot fun putting this together. And of course, if you have my name in it, I have to rate it excellent.
One comment .... I've worked with DBAs who have at least 2 indexes on every table, but I definitely would not give them positive points for that, because they have indexes on every single column! I've seen 30 or 40 indexes on a single, sometimes heavily-updated, table. And they call me in to help find out why their inserts and updates are taking so long. I then have to figure out which of these indexes are really not needed. I'm really looking forward to the new SQL 2005 DMVs to help with that.
Can I use this quiz in a private class I'm teaching for DBAs next month?
Thanks!!Kalen
Very funny, is almost a true history.
All of us sometimes happend one of this issues.
Hello from Guatemala,
Ricardo
You don't like developers do you? Personally the idea of chastisng a developer because they don't agree with you strikes me as arrogance that really doesn't belong in an IT environment.
I'm a database developer, not a dba
Most of the others are fun. at reference to Celko.
We walk in the dark places no others will enterWe stand on the bridge and no one may pass
A developer that codes a view as SELECT * FROM [Very Big Table]...that is what does not belong in the IT environment
True, but neither does a DBA who assumes that they know everything about databases and that all developers are ignorent lusers.
What? No one is posting scores?
Assuming either full positive, full negative or zero, I got an 82.
Fun article. Thanks for putting it up.
As to those who don't like the developers getting poked in the ribs... "Lighten up Frances"
