Stephanie J Brown (4/11/2012)

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As with some earlier comments about smoke breaks, what looks like "non-productive" time to an external watcher may actually be very productive. During the Y2K years...

Did you know that living can be very dangerous to your health too?:-D

jfogel-1131029 (4/11/2012)

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For anyone here complaining about smoking, just remember that posting in this thread isn't what your employer pays you for so try not to let the pot and...

jfogel (4/11/2012)

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I'm surprised there isn't a huge amount of complaining about smoke breaks. Myself and nearly every other DBA I've know smoke. There has never been a shortage of people...

"The best people I've worked with often had short breaks spread in their day. A game of table tennis, playing a song on a guitar, a short conversation, or even...

I have often found that most people have a hard enough time doing their own job competently, let alone someone elses. 😀

For off-hours issues they're the first one called but since it's not an official on call (ie not paid for it and don't carry pager) we're not required...

Ron Stettler (4/9/2012)

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One additional element of employer sponsored(funded) training may be for the interested individual tie

it(the discussion) to achieving business goals or maybe some project completion to skills improvement.

Too many...

I am glad for you, but in reality, most DBA's would not get the...

This makes me remember...

Exactly my point, we get called on a lot of wild goose chases that had nothing to do with the database.:-D

We strictly handle SQL Server support. No Access, no applications, just SQL Server. We have well over 100 instances of SQL Server to administrate spread throughout the state of...

That's what happens when you have 10 times as many developers as DBAs and the DEVELOPERS are the ones writing all stored procedures and creating/modifying tables and databases without...

2 DBA's, and we are on call every other month. The key to on-call is proactive automation and monitoring. Once you get that set up on all your db servers,...

ROLMFAO 😀