You just might be a DBA if.....

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Simon Sutcliffe Right there with Babe Points: 747 More actions · Answer 1

Your client asks you to import data currently maintained on Post-It notes via a DTS and are not surprised when you achieve it?

Your client thinks adding a new entity is as easy as deciding which colour of button should best be used to activate a web process.

You automatically assume everything is possible in SQL Server 2000.

Simple Simon

"To ask is human, to assume is dangerous!"

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Since there are many definitions today of what a DBA is I thought it might be fun to define what one is Jeff Foxworthy style. Here is a start.

You might jiust be a DBA if....

You report to the CIO and are responsible for the data plan, and data integrety rules for the next five year plan

You know what "The key, the whole key and nothing but the key means"

You know what it means when you see

Select a.z,a.y.b.x from t1 a, t2 b

where a.z = b.z and 1=0

You know what CASE stands for

You know how to interpret queries or explains and plan tables to tune for efficiencies

You can sit down with a customer who knows absolutely nothing about SQL or databases but has a need and you develop a database that is in 3NF

William H. Hoover

Louisville, Ky

sweeper_bill@yahoo.com

larsrahm Valued Member Points: 58 More actions · Answer 2

larsrahm

Valued Member

Points: 58

April 9, 2002 at 8:45 am

#426866

A user complains that they can't log on and you say "Try it now."

svanhoy SSC-Addicted Points: 416 More actions · Answer 3

svanhoy

SSC-Addicted

Points: 416

April 11, 2002 at 9:35 am

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You were the last person consulted on a database issue and got so pissed off you resigned.

6 months later you see your old job advertised at twice the salary.

Scott Adams is writing your autobiography.

NeoNash SSC Eights! Points: 864 More actions · Answer 4

NeoNash

SSC Eights!

Points: 864

April 22, 2002 at 6:05 pm

#427629

Or developers write queries anyway they want and expect you to make it fly.

NeoNash

Lee Dise SSCarpal Tunnel Points: 4384 More actions · Answer 5

You just might be a DBA if...

-- Programmers hate you.

-- The system/network admin guys hate you.

-- Your bosses don't understand what it is you do.

-- You spend so much time at work, your own kids don't recognize you.

-- You wonder why everyone is always saying, "But disk is cheap!", but the guys with the checkbooks aren't ever buying you any.

-- If the word "database" is within three miles of any concept, everyone assumes you must be an expert on the subject.

-- Your hackles raise when some academic fool matter of factly states, "Oh, Oracle SQL, Sybase SQL, SQL Server SQL -- they're all the same!"

-- Your tables are normalized but your desk isn't.

-- Your hackles raise when a customer thinks DBAs are like Samantha on "Bewitched!", just wiggle your nose and the new schema will be in place, complete with all necessary data conversions.

-- You look forward to Fridays because then you realize there are only two more days left in your work week.

bcarlson Newbie Points: 7 More actions · Answer 6

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Or...

if you know the difference between a timestamp and a datetime

Steve Jones

steve@dkranch.net

So Steve, what is the difference between timestamp and datetime on SQL Server? I come from a background in PostgreSQL which does not allow for datetime, and I needed to use it(I think) yesterday.

Ben Carlson

danw SSCommitted Points: 1842 More actions · Answer 7

danw

SSCommitted

Points: 1842

May 6, 2002 at 2:53 pm

#428528

... you know how to pronounce PostgreSQL.

... you dropped all of your extended stored procedures in SQL Server to prevent security holes.

... you find yourself explaining that "fixed width" means that every line has the same number of characters.

Sekhar Ganpathy SSC Enthusiast Points: 174 More actions · Answer 8

Sekhar Ganpathy

SSC Enthusiast

Points: 174

May 6, 2002 at 9:07 pm

#428556

You think you are a developer and not an administrator.

Sekhar Ganpathy

Chris Cathers SSC Veteran Points: 218 More actions · Answer 9

If you've entered your entire DVD collection into a database and have written a stored procedure to randomly select which one you are to watch next, that way you don't duplicate viewing over the span of your collection.... (True Story)

Or,

If you thought about writing me to get the Schema and Scripts so you can do it too...