Music for DBAs

  • Oooh, I want to play;

    Going Through the Code Feeling Bad – Grateful Dead

    I Can Run Queries Now (The Blocks Are Gone) – Johnny Nash

    Got My GIGO Working – Muddy Waters

    Index and Table Hints – The Strawberry Alarm Clock

    Nights of the Bound Table – Monty Python's Flying Circus

    Join Together – The Who

  • For the past 2 years it's been all Floyd all the time! DofM, Animals, SoYCD, The Wall, MLoR, Division Bell. In album order. You just can't random play The Wall.

    I can't think of any clever titles, but many of the given ones speak for them selves:

    Money,

    Us and Them (SQL and Oracle/MySQL),

    Brain Damage,

    Thin Ice,

    Empty Spaces,

    Comfortable Numb (usually late Friday)

    One Slip,

    Terminal Frost,

    Cluster One,

    Poles Apart (DBAs and Developers)

    and the list goes on....

  • How about:

    I Still Haven't Found What I'm looking For - U2

    followed by:

    I Don't Care Anymore - Phil Collins



    Alvin Ramard
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  • IceDread (7/7/2009)

    A side note, there was a report in Sweden that studied classic and metal music.

    Sounds like interesting reading.

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    “Politicians are like diapers. They both need changing regularly and for the same reason.”

  • Dan Guzman (7/7/2009)


    For the past 2 years it's been all Floyd all the time! DofM, Animals, SoYCD, The Wall, MLoR, Division Bell. In album order. You just can't random play The Wall.

    I can't think of any clever titles, but many of the given ones speak for them selves:

    and the list goes on....

    Let's not forget Wish You Were Here (or Sid Barrett)...especially appropriate when you are cleaning up after someone else.

    How about Don't Bogart That Join (Little Feat)

    ------------
    Buy the ticket, take the ride. -- Hunter S. Thompson

  • I couldn't listen to the same music every day for 2 days lt alone 2 years. I know floyd has huge catalog But i'd still get bored.

    I usually just put all (7424) songs on shuffle and skip what I don't feel like listening to or turn off shuffle if i hit something i like.

    More Floyd...

    If

    Several species of SQL gathered.

  • I'm particularly fond of cello concertos when I'm trying to concentrate on something...

    I like most concertos I watch most on PBS Great Performances.

    Disaster Recovery:

    Mannin' the Mirror (Michael Jackson, RIP)

    Talking about man in the mirror the city of Los Angeles wants some body to give them money when businesses there will generate $500 million dollars in two days, that does not include landing fees at LAX, just hotel and food. The only city in the US that makes that much money in one month is maybe New York at a cost of more than Los Angeles wants $2. 5 million in tourism staff.

    Depeche Mode

    Paul Simon

    Call me Al

    Billy Joel

    We did not start the fire

    Billy Idol

    Eyes without a face

    Bruce Springsteen

    Dancing in the dark

    Aretha Franklin

    Jump Jump to it

    Cher

    Believe

    Tina Turner

    What love got to do with it?

    Private Dancer

    :Whistling:

    Kind regards,
    Gift Peddie

  • Running On Empty - Jackson Browne (for slow queries)

    I Can See Clearly Now - Johnny Nash (for finding the cause of a problem)

    Wonderful Tonight - Eric Clapton (for when the server runs smoothly after hours)

    Layla - Eric Clapton (for when the server doesn't run smoothly overnight)

    Whiskey River - Willie Nelson (it's what you think about after dealing with Layla)

    Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Coders - Willie Nelson & Waylon Jennings

    🙂

  • In the Name of NULL (U2)

    Anyone for creating a SQL DBAs Station on pandora.com?

    -Andrew

  • I Started to Code - BeeGees

    I Code Everywhere Man - Johnny Cash

    Trigger Through the Tables with Me - Tiny Tim

    500 Lines - Mamma's and Pappa's

    Welcome to My Error - Alice Cooper

    The Long and Confusing Code - Beetles

    Vchar the Magic Datatype - Peter Paul and Mary

    There's a Null in my Query - Hank Williams

    And cause you put one if from "Oh Brother"....

    We're in the Maintenance Plan Now. :w00t:

    Joe

  • I don't think anyone mentioned:

    50 Ways to Leave Your Cursor (Paul Simon)



    Alvin Ramard
    Memphis PASS Chapter[/url]

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  • "Hallelujah" - George Fredrick "I can" Handel "this"

    then

    Every Query

    FOR (unto us a_child is given); next;

    But who may abide the (slow indexing)

    The people that walked in darkness (have not read Joe's books)

    a man of sorrows and acquainted with (time outs)

    And with (striped data sets) we are healed.

    He trusted in (the GUI) that (it) would deliver him;

    Behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto (my) sorrow.

    The Lord gave the word; great was the company of the (developers).

    Why do the (users) so furiously rage together, and why do the (managers) imagine a vain thing?

    Behold, I tell you a mystery; (our threads) shall not all sleep, but (our priorities) all be changed in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last (deadlock).

    He that dwelleth in (Redmond) shall laugh them to scorn; the (Phil Factor) shall have them in derision.

    Since by (EAV) came death,

    Sorry George

    ATBCharles Kincaid

  • This theory may hold for some developers. Sincerely, I don't understand this distinction between developers and dbas.

    Besides knowing how to write/test code in my development tool, I have to design databases (tables, views, triggers, stored procs, integrity,...), optimize sql code, maintain sql upgrade scripts, administer databases (development and customers'), design web pages (html, css, javascript,...), write documentation, logs,.... and play with kids 🙂

    So, what am I, developer or dba or both?

    The best part is play with my kid. Besides being great fun, I learn a lot, not school like knowledge, but paths of creative thinking from a kid with relatively unrestricted imagination. Remember the moral of the "never ending story"?

  • Alvin Ramard (7/7/2009)


    I don't think anyone mentioned:

    50 Ways to Leave Your Cursor (Paul Simon)

    Here's another one where a name change isn't actually required to still be appropriate...

    The good, the bad, the ugly...

    --Jeff Moden


    RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
    First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
    ________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.
    "Change is inevitable... change for the better is not".

    Helpful Links:
    How to post code problems
    How to Post Performance Problems
    Create a Tally Function (fnTally)
    Intro to Tally Tables and Functions

  • Little Green B-tree - George Baker SELECTion

    O' the puns, THE PUNS! *shakes fist in air*

    -d

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