SQLBits 2011

DBAs vs Developers-The FINAL SHOWDOWN

We all know how much love DBA's have for Developers and visa versa. You can measure it in milligrams. This fun session discusses the issues we have with one another and presents some solutions to save knives in backs and blood stained carpets.

You've heard the complaints before:

Developers run queries against YOUR databases and cause YOU issues.
DBA's block all your requests and slow down your progress then enforce silly conventions on you.
Developers think it's SO easy to write queries - if only they knew.
DBA's think it's SO easy to write code - if only they knew.
Developers don't ever think about NULL's and what grief it gives us DBA's.
DBA's don't ever think about NULL's and what grief it gives us Developers.
And so on... we're both as bad as one another!

We'll have a bit of a laugh in this session and poke fun at one another with the aim of better understanding some of the underlying reasons that each discipline appears to be making insane decisions purely and simply to spite us (gits) and the impacts this has on the other.

Speaker

Phil Winstanley provides solutions to situations which have complex technical requirements involving data manipulation. His expertise is internationally acclaimed and he is prominent in the network of specialists in this field, being a member of the Microsoft MVP programme since 2002 and a member of the ASP Insiders since its inception. Now he works at Microsoft and advises techies throughout all markets on best practice and patterns.

Phil Winstanley's Sessions

DBAs vs Developers-The FINAL SHOWDOWN