Comments on: Magical DBA powers

By: Tag Clouds, Election-Style

Tag Clouds, Election-Style — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 19:18:29 +0000

[...] With big help from Gillian (who’s a bright, shining star, and a database administrator looking for work) and an assist from Ask Metafilter, I got them done. I’ll explain a little more about how [...]

By: gillian

gillian — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 07:41:45 +0000

@Dan So far nobody I know has been able to convince their bosses that they need a DBA, or even a DBA/coder. And yes I have a resume, it’s sort of what got me this far.

By: Dan Udey

Dan Udey — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 06:17:32 +0000

Wow, someone who not only knows about, but also knows how to use, LOAD DATA INFILE. Eight years of MySQL wrangling and I’ve never had the stomach. Impressive.

With MySQL skills and regex skills, you’re bound to find a job soon enough. Hmm… I wonder if we’re still hiring. Do you have a resume?

By: Sean

Sean — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 00:35:54 +0000

You ma’am, are (as they say in these parts) ‘teh awesome’.

Regexps ftw!

By: gillian

gillian — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 22:04:46 +0000

@Garth: DBAs are the people who make sure that developers can type “SELECT * FROM foo”. It’s a thankless job.

By: Garth

Garth — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 15:49:20 +0000

So that’s what DBAs do. I always wondered. I mean, it’s not that hard to type “SELECT * FROM foo”

By: filmgoerjuan

filmgoerjuan — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 06:09:26 +0000

Your regular expression are anything but regular.

They’re real and they’re spectacular.

By: luc

luc — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 20:41:21 +0000

Apparently we all like it when you talk dirty like this.

By: Cooper

Cooper — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 18:47:52 +0000

You’re pretty sexay, all right. And XKCD FTW!

Ever consider contracting in Seattle? I don’t know how hard that is, but my friend is a DBA from Montreal who moved here to contract at Microsoft and other Seattle companies, and is now making $90k as a full-timer. She’s only been at it for, like, three years. She didn’t even study comp sci – her degree was in hotel management. It doesn’t seem hard to find work here.

In any case, good luck!

By: donna

donna — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 17:30:11 +0000

I salute you, Madam.

Partially because my employer is heavily encouraging me to learn a *little* php/mysql because our flagship product (and all future products) require it, and theoretically I run the support department, so I should know how to use them, right?

*sigh*

Well, I managed to get it to make an archive-by-month section. blargh. And for my next trick, watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat! With MySQL!