RE: DBAs Need to Learn to Develop

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January 7, 2014 at 8:26 am

Gary Varga (1/7/2014)
There are too many people in the technical side of IT who do not have a foundation in IT knowledge. We should all understand binary, logic, declarative programming, functional programming, distributed systems etc. The level of understanding depends upon what role(s) we need to perform but we must all have a broad understanding of the basics.
Oh, and Jeff, too true :crazy:

Ohhhh... don't get me started. 🙂 You said "binary" and "logic". I think that Computer Science and similar degrees should require folks to take a "hand assembled machine language programming" course in the first year and be bounced from the program if they don't get at least a 3.5. They should also have to "three five" a course in technical writing and communication skills.

--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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