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And if someone hires you to migrate their database and ends up losing data in the process, they deserve what they get.

• Aeolun 6y ago
  A perfectly migrated database? Is everyone really missing the point?
  • rscho 6y ago
    What's your point, then? It seems you're supporting the idea that someone having knowledge and practicing once in a career can be better than someone practicing every day.
  • darkerside 6y ago
    It's a funny effect of lacking experience. The less you've seen, the less you think there is to see. Having been told nothing about this database except the fact that you are to migrate it, you immediately assume that you can do it perfectly. Is it Postgres? SQL Server 2012? Mongo? Oracle? Sybase??? Is it one DB or a cluster? Is it replicating, and by what methodology? How much downtime is acceptable, if any? That's a pretty limited set of possibilities because, you see, I'm also not a database expert. Maybe you think you can handle all of those situations, but I know I can't. So yeah, one of us is definitely missing the point. Not to mention, what if things don't go according to plan! Have you ever even dealt with a situation where you have unreconciled data?! The more I think about it, the angrier I get about your insouciant ignorance! But it's ok, at least I'm not the one hypothetically dealing with a database migration gone totally fucked :)