I never thought of the possibility that managers might hire contractors to do something that requires a skill that no one in house has, rather than training their staff to...

I've generally attended SQL Bits on my own efforts and various technology meet ups similarly.

In latter years I've been able to get funding for attending SQL Bits because I made...

Andrew, you are working for a company whose practises are unsustainable.

What happens if you go under a bus? Heaven forbid you have a stroke or worst still something happens...

Formal cleaning of the kitchen is best left to cleaning staff.

Keeping the kitchen area in a reasonable state, not leaving things festering in the sink etc is just basic decency...

Good point.

Back in the days of SQL Server 6.5 certification was 2 exams. Administration and Develeopment.

Since then SQL Server itself has expanded to encompass SSAS, SSRS, SSIS, Column stores,...

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We've moved to the point where everything developed in the past 12 months is deployed using Puppet and Vagrant. You trigger a build and a pre-configured system materialises either...

Yes it does, but lets not forget that it does require the application to...

I think it would be an interesting case study. To be honest I'm surprised that you haven't already done it.

As a private individual I'm sticking with the site as...

I know of one shop that uses Red-Gate SQLCompare to create a snapshot of the production server every night and that gets checked into source control. It allows a...

For us the full DB build scripts are treated as code in the developers space and are thus under source countrol. This includes CSV files to bulk load static...

I think most of mine were around the people skills thing.

Not grasping the true meaning of what "its not what you know, its who you know" thing and "People and...

That's actually an excellent point. You get promoted to a role where they are unsure as to what they want you to do, aren't clear what your objectives are...

Whats wrong with eventual consistency? Its not designed to be a drop in replacement for the 'C' in ACID right? Its more like the 'C' in CAP from what I...

Our backups are restored to a secondary location nightly thereby prooving that the backups can in fact be restored.

This is a process worked out in collaboration between DBAs and sysadmins....