The Daily WTF
OCTOBER 26, 2021
Database administrators tend to be pretty conservative about how databases are altered. If accepted, the DBAs could write a change script, and apply it in the next database maintenance window. Gus couldn't change the schema, but he could change the way his application used the database fields. Explore how!
The Daily WTF
NOVEMBER 27, 2019
I'm thankful that developers collectively learned to understand how databases work, and didn't start releasing databases that stored flexible documents with no real schema and could just be used as a data dump. As a Database Administrator, it's J.T's Advertisement]. That would be terrible!
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The Daily WTF
APRIL 23, 2024
They had some in-house database administrators, but their skills were more "keep things running," and less "do deep optimizations" The company opted to hire a contract DBA to come in, address the performance problems, and leave. Bob 's employer had a data-driven application which wasn't performing terribly well.
Datavail
MARCH 23, 2023
There is also a shift in database administration as organizations have more options in how they want to be involved in the management of their systems. It requires large teams to manage the databases for large servers. Some DBaaS offerings advertise that you no longer need DBAs to support the environment.
The Daily WTF
JULY 3, 2019
It's not just because database administrators tend to be a unique breed (his colleagues were certainly no exception), but because of the "things" that he'd heard about the team. Advertisement]. But it's a holiday here, so in honor of that, here's a related story. Original -- Remy. Forget logs.
Openxcell
MARCH 8, 2021
It consists of Development (sustaining, strategic and advanced), Quality Assurance, Operations (Release Engineering, OCC, Database Administration, Network, Unix, and Operations Engineering), Program Management, and Systems Engineering. The product is divided into Marketing and Product, Sales and Advertising, and Strategic Development.
The Daily WTF
JULY 16, 2018
He wanted Rob to become the database administrator, telling him only that Virtudyne was a pre-IPO startup bankrolled by The Founder. The Chief Information Officer also purchased the best server he could find advertised in his executive trade publications: the Unisys ES7000. Advertisement]. Happy New Year, All!
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