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April 26, 2006
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What wonderful sight to behold? Google Calendar! How great is this! Oh, my!
DBAs are the most underappreciated expense. A good DBA is one of the strongest requirement for any enterprise-wide, custom IT project. This is if you are stupid or insane enough to try it (and proven stupid or insane). Your managers will thank you, your employees will thank you, and if your customers understood, they would thank you too. My first experience with a DBA team was that they were a bit odd. They seemed not as free and open minded as us developers, actually the opposite. Even for an internal tiny database, you were required to fill out a five page document that seemed like you were signing your life away (at least your data). One of the DBAs looked like Gandalf. You wondered what really went on in the DBA corner. I did learn a lot from them especially since they felt they had to teach SQL to us, the ignorant.
Here is my rant about dbs and companies. Data and if you are fortunate, information is one of the most valuable assets in a company. My fellow business students would say it's the most valuable asset. Then, why do companies limit themselves in using Access alone? As I tell people, Access is a great growth tool but you have to become an adult eventually. I am biased b/c my first db happened to be MS SQL and when I learned Access, it was like stepping into a little box. MySQL is even better than Access. I sometimes want to go to sleep and wake up in a better world.
Posted by azileretsis at April 26, 2006 12:48 PM
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