Yep, the 22 is the total number of digits, the 8 is how many of those will be to the right of the decimal.  For a decimal 22, 8 would...

Hmm... you seem to have your reorg and rebuilds in the wrong places.

The reason is they are trying to return 400+ million rows of data, the fix is to not return that much data.

I don't think the title is dying, however I would say that there are becoming more specialized jobs within the scope of database work.  So a company that may have...