April 8, 2010 at 9:16 am
My job title is DBA. I've never met anyone who's title was "True DBA".
April 8, 2010 at 9:17 am
RBarryYoung (4/7/2010)
Well, I most definitely am not a SQL Server DBA, even though SQL Server is my primary focus. I am a SQL Server Developer ....
That would describe me also.
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April 8, 2010 at 9:31 am
I have been a DBA in the past, although I have never considered my skill set up to true DBA standards. In my current job (just started a few months ago) I work almost exclusively with SQL Server, but more as a programmer and analyst. Our DBA and I do interact quite a bit, and we frequently ask for each other's eyes to look at some things when they are not going as expected.
April 12, 2010 at 8:56 am
My actual title is Senior Analyst/Programmer. I design and build SQL Server 2005 and 2008 databases, tune them, monitor them, back them up, and write all ETL processes in SSIS, as well as stored procedures.
But just ask the Oracle DBA here, and he will tell you that I am NOT a DBA...
Feh.
April 13, 2010 at 3:20 am
I'm a general sysadmin at a small company which has no dedicated DBA, so I have to perform that role myself. This has included stuff like adding indexes into a database for the main application the company uses because the sheer amount of I/O on the server was crippling performance! Having said that, I certainly wouldn't describe myself as a DBA--I don't get to specialise to the extent that title implies, as my performance on the Question of the Day probably shows. 😀
April 14, 2010 at 10:01 am
"Dammit Jim, I'm a DBA, not a(n) (insert impromptu but infuriatingly all-too frequent job responsibility title here) !"
🙂
April 14, 2010 at 10:11 am
Jake Shelton (4/14/2010)
"Dammit Jim, I'm a DBA, not a(n) (insert impromptu but infuriatingly all-too frequent job responsibility title here) !"🙂
:hehe:
Nice.
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April 15, 2010 at 1:47 am
I've been a developer for thirty years and got into SQL for the last job in a small team when us two developers did a fast track SQL 7 course, including basic admin, to get us started on a new development. As the only ones who knew anything about SQL we had to do the install and the DBA as well as developing and I was the last one left so had to do the lot and upgrade to 2000 when it came out.
This job was developer originally but the SQL DBA didn't know much about SQL and didn't really want the job especially when a disk failed and the system databases (with complex dts jobs) weren't backed up, so because I had a bit of SQL experience I got to be developer/DBA. I think I've suceeded where the last man failed by being anal about backups and backups of backups and willing to learn a hell of a lot about SQL, mainly from SSC and some courses (SSIS, SSAS and SSRS) and books.
With a promotion I am now officially titled DBA and look after the SQL side of about 25 servers although I still develop .NET web apps, do lots of SSIS (a favourite tool) and reports and general data queries and now starting a data warehouse.
Having to do it is the best way of learning something!
April 15, 2010 at 3:21 am
I'm currently a .NET developer - but my focus tends to oscillate between C# and SQL Server.
In my current company the DBAs are the gatekeepers to SQL server - some would say 'The Server Police' - I've had run-ins with them in the past over access rights, but now I have my own development server, and full access rights so rarely have much to do with the real DBAs. And... :Whistling: my .NET application has the rights to run DDL scripts - on the server - but don't breathe a word to anyone - :w00t:
April 15, 2010 at 4:48 am
Anyone doing SQL as part of a helpdesk?
April 15, 2010 at 11:44 am
Michael Valentine Jones (4/7/2010)
What's a "true DBA"?
To paraphrase an old phrase, if you do not notice us, we have done our jobs. That is the ideal "true DBA"? 😀
Gaby
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April 15, 2010 at 11:50 am
GabyYYZ (4/15/2010)
Michael Valentine Jones (4/7/2010)
What's a "true DBA"?To paraphrase an old phrase, if you do not notice us, we have done our jobs. That is the ideal "true DBA"? 😀
More like the DBA of a database that is not being used.
Jason...AKA CirqueDeSQLeil
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April 15, 2010 at 12:38 pm
I started out as a Telco Support Engineer for Telco manufacturer installing and supporting Telephony switches used for Long distance, Prepaid Phone Cards and Operator Services. I was trained to support Informix which was used for the billing system's database (SCO Unix). A few years later I was working for one of my former customers and was exposed to SQL Server 6.0 then quickly to 6.5, the databases were used for a Point of Sale system that activated our prepaid cards and was fully web enabled. Being a small shop I was pretty much the I.T. department.
From there I went to another small company doing a lot of the same things plus built a datawarehouse on 7.0 then quickly to 2000 where most of the ETL I did on the unix side before it was transfered to SQL to be imported. We also were an ISP and I was involved with it aswell. At first my job was 80% Telco and IT stuff and 20% DBA work (Both Informix and SQL Server). After 7 years there my job was 90% SQL Server DBA, 5% IT admin and 5% Telco.
I left that job in 2007 and have been a Full Time DBA since. However, because of past experiences with Telephony, IT administration, Unix/linux, project management, Routers, VOIP, scripting, etc I usually get pulled into other things that are not DBA (a being administration) related.
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April 15, 2010 at 2:58 pm
Jack of all trades....
don't know that I'm master of any.
Ran into a good one today - domain admin was trying to open up management studio on an SQL box and couldn't get in. Those that owned the box said they were locked out to. So we must have lost a DBA along the way.
Greg E
April 16, 2010 at 3:34 am
Greg Edwards-268690 (4/15/2010)
Jack of all trades....don't know that I'm master of any.
But that fish looks pretty impressive Greg
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