Jeff Moden (11/14/2016)

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Iwas Bornready (11/14/2016)

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Gary Varga (11/7/2016)

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...or they could just continually lose staff with all their knowledge of both the business and it's workings then hire someone with none of that but the one skill they weren't prepared to train existing staff on with the increase in salary for the new person being more that the difference in the cost of the training.

(This from a freelancer!!!)

I agree. Losing staff loses a lot of history that is often overlooked until they are gone, when it's too late.

Elevator conversation:

Joe: Hi, I'm Joe from XYZ Corp. You here for the SQL Saturday?

Me: Yep. Giving a presentation.

Joe: What do you do in "real life"?

Me: I'm a hybrid DBA. I do both Systems and Application DBA work.

Joe: What kind of work do they do?

Me: All the stuff no one knows about until they stop doing it. 🙂