A few months ago I was conducting interviews for a Production DBA position that we were creating, and an interesting thing happened...I ran into a candidate who was much like me a few years earlier. Unfortunately neither of us qualified. Here are some lessons from that experience...
Perhaps I should provide a little background for new readers. I have been a database application developer since about 1988 ranging from Info on minicomputers to Advanced Revelation and on to Oracle. I started using SQL Server in 1999 on version 7.0. I have a lot of experience in both the UI and database...