December 16, 2024 at 3:14 pm
Interviewing for open position...
My boss: Rate your SQL skills & knowledge on a scale of 1 to 10.
Interviewee: 7 or 8
Me: Let's talk about backups and restores.
Interviewee: I have no experience with backups and restores.
Me: Okay, let's chat about security.
Interviewee: I don't know anything about security.
I just wanted to cry. I mean, really? The two basic fundamentals I believe ALL DBAs should know, especially one who rates their skills so high, and you don't know ANYTHING?
Is it just a me problem? Or does everyone else here expect at least a little knowledge in those areas for every hire?
I would be channeling some Office Space interview energy at that point, "What would say you do know about SQL Server?"
December 16, 2024 at 6:43 pm
One has to laugh, RTO no longer stands for Recovery Time Objective, now it means Return To Office
😎
Those ever-changing meanings of common TLAs are giving me a headache.
Does anyone have an idea for RPO 😉
December 16, 2024 at 6:52 pm
Does anyone have an idea for RPO 😉
Return Porkchop Output
EDIT: Or Rebounding Porkchop Objective?
December 16, 2024 at 7:26 pm
Brandie Tarvin wrote:Eirikur Eiriksson wrote:Does anyone have an idea for RPO 😉
Return Porkchop Output
EDIT: Or Rebounding Porkchop Objective?
Any vegetarian options? 😎
Retour Pain Objet
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December 16, 2024 at 7:35 pm
Eirikur Eiriksson wrote:Brandie Tarvin wrote:Eirikur Eiriksson wrote:Does anyone have an idea for RPO 😉
Return Porkchop Output
EDIT: Or Rebounding Porkchop Objective?
Any vegetarian options? 😎
Retour Pain Objet
Thinking of Radish Parsnip Oregano, makes "more sense" although it is absolutely pointless 😉
😎
Looks good on the Menu though.........
December 16, 2024 at 7:38 pm
Radish Parsnip Orecchiette.
December 16, 2024 at 8:49 pm
Oh boy. Here are my Christmas presents.
Once again, we got to be the folks with the shovel and broom following the horses in the parade! I want to be the horse next week!
Michael L John
If you assassinate a DBA, would you pull a trigger?
To properly post on a forum:
http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/61537/
December 17, 2024 at 3:42 am
Too much fun, Michael!
--Jeff Moden
Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
December 17, 2024 at 3:46 am
Brandie Tarvin wrote:Interviewing for open position...
My boss: Rate your SQL skills & knowledge on a scale of 1 to 10.
Interviewee: 7 or 8
Me: Let's talk about backups and restores.
Interviewee: I have no experience with backups and restores.
Me: Okay, let's chat about security.
Interviewee: I don't know anything about security.
I just wanted to cry. I mean, really? The two basic fundamentals I believe ALL DBAs should know, especially one who rates their skills so high, and you don't know ANYTHING?
Is it just a me problem? Or does everyone else here expect at least a little knowledge in those areas for every hire?
I would be channeling some Office Space interview energy at that point, "What would say you do know about SQL Server?"
It has become a "thing". The Net/Ops groups for a lot of companies are responsible for all of that.
And, no... I'm not saying that's a good thing. 🙁
--Jeff Moden
Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
December 17, 2024 at 10:13 am
It has become a "thing". The Net/Ops groups for a lot of companies are responsible for all of that.
And, no... I'm not saying that's a good thing. 🙁
I know this pain. The external infrastructure company is in charge of the backups for one side of the business, and their "idea" of transaction log backups were to perform them 15 minutes before the full database backup; once a day...
When I asked them to change that, and have them completed every 15 minutes, they said that their "Leading Backup Solution" application was unable to do that; it could only do one backup a day.
So all the databases are now in SIMPLE mode, and there's nothing I can do about it until we get rid of them, or they change their backup solution.
Thom~
Excuse my typos and sometimes awful grammar. My fingers work faster than my brain does.
Larnu.uk
December 17, 2024 at 10:34 am
Eirikur Eiriksson wrote:Does anyone have an idea for RPO 😉
Return Porkchop Output
EDIT: Or Rebounding Porkchop Objective?
--Jeff Moden
Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
December 17, 2024 at 12:22 pm
Michael, I feel your pain. I hope Santa brings you a large porkchop launcher to suitably admonish all involved.
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