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  • March 30, 2012 at 7:09 am

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    amy26 (3/29/2012)

    but I would really like to be in a cutting edge shop with lots of other developers that I can learn some of these things we're talking about. That and I really want to get the hell out of DC! 😀

    🙂

    Should I be concerned that I don't fully comprehend how a b-tree structure works in the database or that I had to look up the ACID principles?

    The answer (IMHO) is "maybe". It depends on how bad you want to get out of DC. 😀

    The world of DBA jobs is fairly competative and, while I certainly agree that such "essoteric" knowledge isn't necessarily required to do a good job, such knowledge is frequently used as an interview "tie-breaker". It's not always fair and isn't necessarily a good measure of how good a job someone may do but that's the way things frequently pan out.

    You've been through several "grillings" and now know what to expect. It'll take you very little time to become an SME on those things that you feel a bit light on and easily outshine the competition.

    --Jeff Moden

    RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
    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.

    Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

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