Steve

Like you said, "fewer jobs than candidates." All candidates need all the edge they can muster. I'm looking to relocate. Questions I have difficulty with are areas...

Hey Steve

I like your mobile idea as IT becomes more mobile. I see uses especially with the military and intel agencies along with global corps setting up shops quickly...

Steve

I could see you in a band. 🙂

I've been doing that since I started working as a DBA for the exact reasons you gave Steve. I never wanted anything to be attached to any other DB...

Good article Sylvia! This would also be a good checklist for starting a new job. Very well thought out.

i think it would be a good location for general developer databases. less server maintenance. also good for putting databases on the web that you have no care...

because we not only like challenges, we don't like to be proven that we can't do something, even to ourselves

I have not attended but would like to attend a DBA Boot Camp.

Your editorial makes lots of sense. A real course doesn't last a week to be...

Hey Steve

Interesting thought. Made me think about how we would handle availability within our control. Another thought popped as I finished reading your article.

Can you replicate between different...

I realized that most of the time, getting the site back up, having lookup and other types of ancillary data (like products, prices, etc), was the most important thing. Recovering...

the best dba is the one that can effectively recover...

anyone who says they are a 10 has reached the pinnacle in their career. they are done. time to move on to something else. no one knows...

Steve

That's exactly what I've been wanting to do that last several years since I saw an Oracle app for remote monitoring through the web. I'd love to pick up...

"Even "Big Blue" has learned the MBA maxim of lowering cost = increase value for shareholders. Too bad it doesn't mean better value for the customer. The old saying that...

improve on the basics you learned in college and throw everything else out the door 😉 IT is in a constant flux of change. read up on and...