RE: What Counts for a DBA: Amnesia

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January 7, 2013 at 4:23 pm

Ah... now I understand what you're trying to say. If someone has the wrong attitude about it, they'll consider it the "pain of learning". If someone has the correct attitude about the job, they'll call it the "joy of learning". IMHO, attitude is one of those major qualities that seperate the really good DBAs from the mundane whether the particular job is mundane or not.

"To try and fail is a learning event". Whether you learn something from it or not is up to you.

--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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