Well then, I hope you have a better idea for a presentation. They are somewhat rare at the moment.
Alexey Toptygin wrote: > On Wed, 11 Feb 2009, Ed Kohlwey wrote: > >> I could have said "if you ascribe to the notion that cloud computing is >> an increasingly dominant factor in the computer industry, and you plan >> on working for a company that produces web applications, does scientific >> computing, or produces any other application involving distributed data >> and/or processing of data then this presentation is a must!" That might >> have been a little more specific, but I think I fell asleep half way >> through writing it. The bottom line is that a lot of people think that >> this kind of data distribution strategy will become increasingly common >> in the computer industry, so it's relevant to our audience. > > No, see, that's exactly what I disagree with. Being a DBA is a > _specialty_, one that, in my experience, less than 5% of computer > professionals work in. Is it useful to know how drizzle works and how to > configure it? Yes. Do you have to know how it works in order to use it? > No! Chances are that if you're a drizzle (or any other non-trivial DB) > user, then you need to know 1) SQL and 2) an API such as perl's DBI. You > usually don't need to know or care about the back end, because there is > a DBA whose job it is to think about these things, which you don't have > time to think about because you're too busy doing development, or > sysadminning or QA or whatever. > >> BTW, now that you've weighed your two cents in you're obligated to come >> to the presentation and debate the technical merits of the application >> during our discussion period. :) > > Nope, sorry. I don't know the relative technical merits of various SQL > databases, and I would not be able to learn them well enough to be a DBA > without spending several years learning. I claim that I don't have to > know these things, and neither does any computer professional that does > not intend to be a DBA. > > Alexey
