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I'd consider this such a gross case of malpractice on the level of a surgeon forgetting some instruments in patient, before sewing her shut. Errors and mistake
by CaptainZapp 8y ago
I'd consider this such a gross case of malpractice on the level of a surgeon forgetting some instruments in patient, before sewing her shut.
Errors and mistakes happen, no question about that. And any ol' mistake certainly shouldn't be a firing offense.
But this behaviour is so grossly incompetent that I don't believe that it can't be helped with any training.
- geofft 8y agoSurgeons are generally trained with a grueling multi-year academic and practical program about how to conduct surgery. DBAs aren't. If you're lucky you have someone who has been trained to be a DBA professionally - but I've never worked with one, all the SQL I've interacted with has been run by people with unrelated job titles who learned how to operate databases by Googling when necessary. You're welcome to fire people if you think it's going to help. I'm just curious how you think a skilled, trained DBA is going to show up at your desk when that happens.
- C1sc0cat 8y agoYou pay them money :-) though think the guy that was our DBA at BT has now retired - his first boss was Diskaja at NPL labs
- icedchai 8y agoAt a bank, yes. However, for a smaller startup firm, no. (The truth is, for most of this stuff, most of the time, it just doesn't matter.)
- C1sc0cat 8y agoIt just doesn't matter until it does.
- 0xFACEFEED 8y agoWhich is fine if failing is cheap. Depends on the risk profile.