Re: why administrator refuse to give permission on PLUSTRACE

On 2007-11-04 20:00, DA Morgan <damorgan_at_psoug.org> wrote:
> My point was that while the developers here seemed more than willing to
> point fingers at incompetent DBAs

I don't think that's the case. We merely pointed out that not all developers are incompetent and not all DBAs are competent.

> from my experience the developers are equally guilty of not keeping
> their skills current. Not more so ... equally so.

I would even agree that the developers are more guilty of that, and that many of them not only don't keep their skills current, but have never aquired the necessary skills in the first place.

I do think that every professional should know their tools. If a developer writes software that uses a database, he must know that database well enough to write reasonably efficient code in the first place and to identify and fix problems. If he doesn't, he should learn it, because that's his job.

        hp

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