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Post #204,347 by broomberg 4/21/05 4:58:05 PM Reply	Our new DBA starts next week Has a PHD in some area of bioscience. He decided lab work was boring, and his buddy told him he'd make a great DBA, and the pay was a LOT more, so he's been doing it ever since. For the last 10 years. I have very few tag-team interviews where I can find NOTHING wrong technically with the interviewee. This was one of them. He even recommened some specific programming method for large data volume access/update that we have been using for a few years. None of the other candidates had even heard of it. And the guy I was interviewing with is much harder than me. Was blown away as well.
Post #204,356 by ben_tilly 4/21/05 5:26:24 PM Reply	Any chance that he wants to move to LA? I have come to believe that idealism without discipline is a quick road to disaster, while discipline without idealism is pointless. -- Aaron Ward (my brother)
Post #204,361 by tuberculosis 4/21/05 6:06:03 PM Reply	Or Seattle? We're not having great luck finding good ones and we need many more. "Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect" --Mark Twain "The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." --Albert Einstein "This is still a dangerous world. It's a world of madmen and uncertainty and potential mental losses." --George W. Bush
Post #204,364 by broomberg 4/21/05 6:47:18 PM Reply	Bunch of vultures 1 DBA. Just 1. That's all I ask for. After going through a string of losers, doing damage, losing data, telling me that is OK if the system is slow, after all, the data is big (when I KNOW better), just 1 damn DBA is all I ask for. You people with with your monster companies and your need for many DBAs wanting my 1 DBA? NO!!!! YOU CAN'T HAVE HIM! Grow your own, dammit!
Post #204,367 by tuberculosis 4/21/05 7:26:35 PM Reply	We can't seem to grow them fast enough See, we've got this big decentralization move on. Each group must maintain their own database (if they have one - my group is strictly UI frameworks). So everyone is busy trying to get DBA's for their groups. My parent group needs at least 2. "Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect" --Mark Twain "The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." --Albert Einstein "This is still a dangerous world. It's a world of madmen and uncertainty and potential mental losses." --George W. Bush

Has anyone heard of a tool like this? - (ben_tilly) - (19) - April 20, 2005, 09:47:23 PM EDT

Im confused - (boxley) - (18) - April 20, 2005, 10:38:47 PM EDT

Explanation - (ben_tilly) - (17) - April 21, 2005, 12:48:48 AM EDT

well that can be hand carved - (boxley) - (16) - April 21, 2005, 09:57:27 AM EDT

That's a useless response - (ben_tilly) - (15) - April 21, 2005, 10:47:46 AM EDT

Sounds like you are hand carving it - (broomberg) - (3) - April 21, 2005, 11:19:28 AM EDT

I may have to... - (ben_tilly) - (2) - April 21, 2005, 02:11:40 PM EDT

Seems it does not meet the commercial x-over requirement - (broomberg) - (1) - April 21, 2005, 03:36:04 PM EDT

Point -NT - (ben_tilly) - April 21, 2005, 04:26:01 PM EDT

spotted a book while looking for something else - (boxley) - (10) - April 21, 2005, 02:54:04 PM EDT

I assume that our DBAs know that stuff... -NT - (ben_tilly) - (9) - April 21, 2005, 04:25:10 PM EDT

Don't. -NT - (CRConrad) - (8) - April 21, 2005, 04:43:42 PM EDT

I've seen the books on their desks... - (ben_tilly) - (7) - April 21, 2005, 04:53:16 PM EDT

Our new DBA starts next week - (broomberg) - (4) - April 21, 2005, 04:58:05 PM EDT

Any chance that he wants to move to LA? -NT - (ben_tilly) - (3) - April 21, 2005, 05:26:24 PM EDT

Or Seattle? - (tuberculosis) - (2) - April 21, 2005, 06:06:03 PM EDT

Bunch of vultures - (broomberg) - (1) - April 21, 2005, 06:47:18 PM EDT

We can't seem to grow them fast enough - (tuberculosis) - April 21, 2005, 07:26:35 PM EDT

Damn, you have it good! Envy, envy. - (CRConrad) - (1) - April 21, 2005, 04:59:07 PM EDT

There are a lot of atypical things about this company :-) -NT - (ben_tilly) - April 21, 2005, 05:25:29 PM EDT

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