I got about three paragraphs into that article Steve linked and had a horrifying flashback to another article (I'll spare you the link) by a guy who believed SPROCs were destroying C# development. While I don't want to be a DBA and a systems administrator (I just escaped infrastructure after 20 years and am not having a LOST moment where "I have to go back!") and the guy who fixes the coffee pot, I do think it's almost negligent for a developer not to know something beyond the basics about the different stacks. App developers need to know why moving a DBA's position is about like pushing a mountain. DBAs need to understand that, no, the C# guys aren't making up queries to drive them insane. And QA needs to stop being an afterthought.

Enough silos. Silos stifled my career. I had to get laid off to get out of infrastructure. When I landed, I found myself not only writing an app from scratch, but I had to build its database, too. Which means I had to know something beyond "It's pronounced "sequel" and yes, you have to use brackets in your .Net or Java code."

Tom Hottle

Operations Support Developer