I suppose it would be fair to say I didn’t pick up the Grumpy Old DBA for no reason, as well as the usual paranoia of a Production DBA , distrust of almost anyone who wants to go near a database and possibly over protective nature regarding databases I have tended to become more cynical  and distrustful during my time in IT especially if I’m told I wouldn’t understand or I believe I’m being fobbed off by other teams such as networks, storage, app and web tier folks, developers – in fact almost...(read more)

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