RE: DBA's that tune duhveloper's SQL

From: Chris Berry <compjma_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 18:18:36 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.00580FB8.20030414181836@fatcity.com>

>From: Paula_Stankus_at_doh.state.fl.us
>Geez - if you didn't find any in the last round and you are going to be
>more
>demanding this time - how will you find anyone ever. I am surely missing
>something. Perhaps the good news is that DBA's who understand these
>concepts will have more job security as they will be required to fix more
>things - not the job security one would wish but ....
>
>-----Original Message-----
>Sent: Monday, April 14, 2003 8:04 PM
>On the contrary.
>The only developers we currently have are for Lotus Notes.
>The last couple rounds of interviews for developers, I have not
>been able to find a single one that knew:
>* who Date or Codd are
>* had heard of the 12 rules that the perfect RDBMS must enforce ( also by
>Codd )
>* bind variables . In defense of a couple of them, they knew the
>concept.
>Several of them had a hard time with
>* normalization
>* writing simple SQL statements requiring a 2 way join
>When I say simple, I mean that given the definitions of 2 tables
>and a requirement, some could not come up with:
>
>select e.name, e.dept
>from emp e, dept d
>where e.dept = d.dept
>
>All were MS weenies.
>Now we get to go through it again.
>I'm going to be more demanding this time.
>Jared

Perhaps you should consider hiring some that you think are decent coders in general but lack rdbms experience and training them to do things your way.

Chris Berry
compjma_at_hotmail.com
Systems Administrator
JM Associates

"Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken." -- Duke Leto Atreides

---

Protect your PC - get McAfee.com VirusScan Online http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3963

-- 
Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net
-- 
Author: Chris Berry
  INET: compjma_at_hotmail.com

Fat City Network Services    -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com
San Diego, California        -- Mailing list and web hosting services
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message
to: ListGuru_at_fatcity.com (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in
the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L
(or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from).  You may
also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).

Received on Mon Apr 14 2003 - 21:18:36 CDT