RE: Good DBA vs. Bad DBA

As does every organization we've got good and bad ones. My immediate boss is great, both as a techie and as a manager. In his early days working with SPIRES, Stanford Public Information Retrieval System, nee Stanford Physics ..., he built a three tier system. That may not seem like much, but it is instrumental to the web. Every so often someone claims to have developed the technique, files for a patent, and claims royalties from all makers of web products. It is my boss's work that is the "prior art" which shutdowns these claims.

He has been fantastic accommodating my erratic schedule so I can get my daughter to therapy.

Ian MacGregor
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
ian_at_SLAC.Stanford.edu

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I am an avid Dilbert reader and a great fan of both Scott and Douglas Adams (question of life, universe and everything, remember?) but I do not necessarily agree with management bashing. My boss happens to be a very nice guy and he was a consultant for Oracle Corp. He can be reasoned with, he's not always right and he understands that if I am to read books in the evening, he has to tolerate my extended beauty sleep from time to time. Not that it helps with the aesthetic side but I feel much better. He's a sort of male Rachel, I believe.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: DENNIS WILLIAMS [mailto:DWILLIAMS_at_LIFETOUCH.COM]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2002 11:58 AM
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>
> Mladen - What hasn't Dilbert had to say about managers? Read
> his books if
> you need more. Along this topic, someone provided the answer
> to "why do
> technical people like Dilbert's opinions so much?". Their
> response was that
> because we are hired because we are intelligent and educated
> (well I'm still
> fooling them), we are hard to manage. We tend not to blindly
> trust authority
> figures, but to be a little skeptical. In fact, sometimes I
> think a DBA is a
> professional skeptic.
> Dennis Williams
> DBA
> Lifetouch, Inc.
> dwilliams_at_lifetouch.com
>
>
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> Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2002 6:09 PM
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>
> I'm interested in any good comments that Dilbert has had
> about managers.
> I happen to like my manager (and no, he's not on this list).
>
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> > From: Freeman, Robert [mailto:Robert_Freeman_at_csx.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2002 4:08 PM
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> > Subject: RE: Good DBA vs. Bad DBA
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> >
> > I usually leave good manager/bad manager comments to Dilbert...
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > [mailto:Rachel_Carmichael_at_Sonymusic.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2002 12:38 PM
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> >
> >
> >
> > HEY! I resent that..... ask the last person who worked for
> > me, I think I was
> > a
> > pretty good manager!
> >
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> > BoivinP_at_mar.dfo-mpo.gc.ca wrote:
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> > > Dare I ask... do you have a Good Manager vs. Bad Manager list?
> >
> >
> > you mean there is such a thing as a good manager? why don't
> > people tell
> > me these things?;-)
> >
> >
> >
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> > bthater2_at_netscape.net
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> > You gotta compile like you'll never get hurt,
> > You gotta run like there's nobody watching,
> > It's gotta come from the heart if you want it to work.
> > --------------------------------------------------------------
> > ----------
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