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by sqldba 11y ago
What I love is the number of people who keep espousing cloud services of every other nature. "Everything is already there! They're better at security than you!" And then history shows services close down, change ownership, pr
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by sqldba 11y ago
IMHO that's still a very large database today. Most people don't appreciate that restoring that is likely going to be 4-8 hours given SAN and network speeds unless you're in a super modern SSD-driven environment. When it goes
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by sqldba 11y ago
> You're too focused on the idea that those generalist are a bunch of skill-less dipshits. In this specific case it's because I've been working with the quality of dipshits in the departments they are being pulled from, ov
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by sqldba 11y ago
Your server support person did wrong and language is no excuse for them. If there's any ambiguity, if data may be lost, if something may cause an outage - then they have a duty to tell you and then ask if you're sure. I do it all
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by sqldba 11y ago
> I recommended it be freshly wiped If there's one thing I hate about the industry it's the adamant refusal in almost every single case to ever just "migrate a server" onto a fresh server. Every time there are known p
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by sqldba 11y ago
As a DBA that's pretty bad. I have seen someone do that, and was able to restore a copy of the database side by side, and then update that column of each row back (luckily it wasn't a high traffic table so many nobody would even k
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by sqldba 11y ago
Sorry that seems cancerous to me. It breeds entire departments who are unaccountable for the work they do because nobody is safe to speak out against it. If someone fucks up you should be able to point it out - and they should be immediatel
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by sqldba 11y ago
They sound well intentioned but don't work in some backwards Enterprise companies. 1) That'd be great. Except that management refuses to get into the 21st century; everything is virtualised but no you can't get a sandbox, tha
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by sqldba 11y ago
Speaking from firsthand experience, business doesn't care. The managers know that a) no matter what happens it's likely that their jobs aren't on the line, b) they already have stockholder money and so can just hand-wave any
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by sqldba 11y ago
The Enterprise I work for is currently implementing a new idea - where they hire a crack team of generalists - and give them complete and utter unfettered access to production (including databases). This is despite our databases being contr
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by sqldba 11y ago
When I quit my prior job, they started a multi-month project to replace all of my PowerShell with "proper" C#. Then they decided it was too hard, threw it all away, and just decommissioned parts of the application and run everythi
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by sqldba 11y ago
Hilarious. More of these please.
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by sqldba 11y ago
Wah wah. I disagree. I'm tired of seeing this in Enterprise: * 100 page Word document. 200 page Word document. Take your pick. * 99% of it is clearly cut and pasted from somewhere else and contains information absolutely incorrect and
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by sqldba 11y ago
I really want the wireless natural keyboard with a built in number pad. I know it's seperate but it's not the same. But the baseball mouse really hurts my hand; and I tried using it for a month before giving up.
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by sqldba 11y ago
Good plan. Luckily MOST software, even advanced stuff, can run easily on free database engines. They really are CRUD for the most part. My income depends on SS but it saddens me when I think of how much is spent on it by applications which
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by sqldba 11y ago
SS is more advanced than PG out of the box. Built in scalability and HA; far more reliable point in time backup/restore; PG even only had a plan cache added recently (the past year or so?) Then you have full text search, built in colum
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by sqldba 11y ago
2016 supports JSON.
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by sqldba 11y ago
> I think it is naive to criticize this move in any way - it is giving more choice so should be supported. It's naive to support it just because of the assumption that more choice must be good. On the contrary the past few years on
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by sqldba 11y ago
"Here's a board with wheels we call a hover board!"
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by sqldba 11y ago
I can't tell you how much I loved these books growing up. I also own the collections of their puzzle books and wish they'd reprint their ghost puzzle collections.
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by sqldba 11y ago
Innocent people kept getting murdered on King St (a popular bar and night life destination, as well as prostitution or at least erotic joints, and possibly some drug use.) A few years back there was a spate of "King Hits" which is
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by sqldba 11y ago
Wow, madness. So before we were told not to ask the question in interviews; but suddenly it's ok to be asked the question in interviews. For me it's definitely negotiable. If you can't afford me then after negotiation then an
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by sqldba 11y ago
Absolutely. I'm an administrator but I do a lot of programming to automate parts of my work. Some people fail to understand what a creative engagement that is. I'm not saying my code is fantastic or anything but it is an extremely
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by sqldba 11y ago
I don't "serve" anyone. I provide my time in exchange for compensation and I do what I think is important with a little grey area that I also join in (for example, meetings). Ultimately though I decide what I'm working o
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by sqldba 11y ago
It's not like you're digging a hole in your backyard. It's meant to be (or should be) providing time to do something outside of management's understanding of what's important.
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by sqldba 11y ago
I saw a fascinating comment a few weeks ago that, why does a company think it's fine for you to "work from home" when you're on call all the time to fix their problems; but not the rest of the time when you're fixin
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by sqldba 11y ago
Agreed. I like the cut of your jib. IMHO denying orders to focus on what you're told rather than what you know is important is not only a hallmark to a good employee, nobody cares that you pissed off some random boss at work when you h
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by sqldba 11y ago
Wow I would absolutely hate this. I'm not doing 20% time to trend shit for YOU on GitHub so that YOU can feel like you're doing something as a manager; intruding on and micromanaging "free time" until it's anything
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by sqldba 11y ago
If they could just wait until cPanel has LetsEncrypt support that would be great...
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by sqldba 11y ago
IMHO this article is terrible. Aside from the atrocious size it both meanders along on screen-length paragraphs and then jumps between decades, characters, and quotes. Who the hell can read something like this? Word count and editing matter

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