Re: Fed Up with being a DBA

Joel Garry wrote:

>That's all very nice, but doesn't address the issue of having to
>change vetted and implemented code.
>

And that's a bad thing? For who? The stockholders of the company? Corporate managment? The CDO? The
clerks in accounting?

Seems to me that is what developers and DBAs are paid for.

Follow this link for a better understanding of our industry:

http://www.flubu.com:8008/comics/dilbert2.gif

> The implication there is "how do
>we know other things down the road won't do this to us again?"
>

You don't. You don't know that you won't get hit by a bus tomorrow either. That's life.

> As (or well, maybe, _if_ :-) the software industry matures, this upgrade
>cycle expense will be more obvious.
>
>
>

And we could all still be shuffling punch cards. After all ... they did work.

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