Great manager.

Great director.

Work from home three days a week.

25 paid days of time off.

Work laptop to use when working from home.

On call for one week once every two months.

Guaranteed bonus...

Disaster Recovery would make a great thesis. As part of your research, find out the school's DR plan. See where it is weak and what improvements might be...

Batman. I used to have a Batman costume when I was a kid. He had such cool gadgets, his strength came from working out - not from a...

I support several vendor databases and I don't make any changes to them. What I do is advise them on what I find. So if I find an...

Media is normally defined as an agency of mass communication. That is what this site is.

For many years, this was an independent site. While Steve does a grand...

Steve,

Good article, well written. However, as brought up it does give an appearance (notice I said appearance) of a conflict of interest.

You highlight a RedGate product and guess what...

http://www.cio.com.au/article/255165/sorting_facts_terry_childs_case/?fp=&fpid=&pf=1

It appears possible that he was doing this to hamper an audit of what he was doing on the system.

-SQLBill

Building your own allows you to customize it as you can afford/need it. You can also eliminate things (software) that manufacturers add on that you really don't need.

If you...

Wow, try and learn everything there is to know about SQL Server. Impossible, even for just one version of it. I doubt there is any one person in...

Someone might be able to answer you, but you would be better off posting your question on a site for Oracle.

-SQLBill

That really depends...on the DBA, on the environment....

How skilled is the DBA? How big is the enviroment? How involved is the environment?

For example, bring in a good DBA but...

I worked at a job where we the database outgrew the room for being able to do a restore and have two copies of the same database at the same...

The number of servers/databases just depends on the size of the company and what they...

I am also an 'accidental DBA'. I took training as an Oracle Programmer and then ended up being a SQL Server DBA in my first job. That was...

The ability to communicate and work together.

-SQLBill