As an ordinary person, I certainly feel it is my duty to leave things as I find them. I have on occasions spilt some tea or milk etc. and it...

I think it is important to constantly look to reevaluate a small percentage of habits. It would be better if what is reevaluated changes so that everything is reassessed over...

hakim.ali (6/12/2014)

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A few days ago, there was an editorial on SSC about the DBA being too large/encompassing a term (http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/terminology/109566/). It led to a very interesting discussion (http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1577204-3554-1.aspx). One of...

sdorris 90134 (6/12/2014)

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When I built my SaaS application, I had no DBA. Therefore, I became an accidental DBA by learning everything I could about database design, stored procedures, etc.

Personally, I...

Ed Wagner (6/12/2014)

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Gary Varga (6/12/2014)

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Databases often have a longer lifespan and are slower...

OCTom (6/12/2014)

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I think the problem is the thinking that an application and a database are two separate things. They are not. The user interface code and the database combine to...

I'm thankful for posts, like the above,...

scott mcnitt (6/12/2014)

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Gary Varga (6/12/2014)

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geoffrey.sturdy (6/12/2014)

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No Gary - that's how things are - when you roll out changes you by their nature de-stabilise a system , ususally there is a...

A quick (and slightly biased) question: I am a developer whose only community that I am active on is this, so how many of you DBAs are active on developer...

geoffrey.sturdy (6/12/2014)

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No Gary - that's how things are - when you roll out changes you by their nature de-stabilise a system , ususally there is a good reason for doing...

In my opinion the problems lies in the following often being the case:

1) Management using one team as a leverage against the other (usually in both directions)

2) A lack of...

...and that isn't going to cause offense by using...

"productive grumpiness"? Have we woken the sleeping Jeff??? :blink:

djackson 22568 (6/10/2014)

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hakim.ali (6/10/2014)

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Yikes. I hope he's moved on...

djackson 22568 (6/10/2014)

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Gary Varga (6/10/2014)

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I am thankful that I work in a country that is relatively unbiased.

The UK isn't perfect but I work alongside (or have done) men, women and...