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Comment Re:I don't have a degree... (Score 1) 844

It's not that someone is young, it's that the new place is "old." Out of the gate (military) I was able to get $80k, with no degree, as a DBA. But I'm ambitious as hell and can sell myself. No complaints. Move forward just 3 years and it's over $100k and I still see no ceiling, other than the fact that I get work done and frankly that scares people because I don't play the games. And I'm not even 28 and leading my peers. It's embedded in our society that you will make yourself, so make it or play the game along with everyone else. But you also have to find an environment that is a good fit. I can't steamroll at AT&T or some other pretentious place, they're just too mechanical--but at a smaller organization where direction is needed I can thrive and it's directly shown in the bottom line.

Comment Re:The Only Choice is... (Score 1) 283

A stored procedure to update the record using select for update is the only real way to do this, because in high concurrency environments, if upon issuing the update, the app selects the value of last modified and compares, then updates, someone else can update between the start of the select and the issued update. It happens a lot more than you think. Which is also why, as a DBA, it drives me nuts to see developers writing code that does a select count(*) to see how much work should be done, then does the work--just do the work on a cursor because your count can change.

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