I suppose my answer here is a bit more fundamental than just participating in a sport, and I'm not really a team sport kind of person anyway.

As Steve mentioned in...

La, la, la, I can't hear you... :Whistling:

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Once again, an editorial making two points, and both good ones too.

Regarding testing, it's certainly an art rather than a science, since by definition you're trying to find the unexpected,...

Emmchild, I have to say...

When you work that one out, can you let me know too? 😀

I think the key is the knowledge that all fields of employment move slowly enough to allow new blood in; if it didn't, the field would simply die. Therefore, as...

That's just it. VM technology adds a level of complexity, but also a level of flexibility. For beefy dedicated servers, there's often nothing to be gained by slapping them on...

This article pretty much mirrors what I've done before. We have requirements for lightly loaded SQL servers, so have used VMs to fill the need. We've used utilities before for...

In the UK, previous employers are not allowed to give a bad reference; the only choices are a good reference or none at all. Of course people get around it...

This all links in, of course, with one of the previous editorials, where the ensuing discussion thread included a lot of "soft skills" in the list of "essential DBA skills"....

Been on holiday, so apologies for the late post. Good editorial, and like the comments on the thread. However, as is my wont, I have a comment or two since...

Oh, and I forgot to mention.

Last time we had a full-on disaster situation (thankfully years in the past), the whole team took up their positions very quickly, as I'd expect...

Thanks for the vote of confidence, Sam 🙂

To be honest, though, it's often the easiest things to do that are missed. A question to illustrate (or prove me wrong, of...

And it's not a pipe dream either. My team/management/department/company all provide precisely that support, and it has certainly been put to the test plenty of times, so demonstrating the "walk"...

An interesting topic, but for me it has a spin-off that could be quite far reaching.

Here in the UK, personal data is protected by the Data Protection Act, and one...