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What is the future for system and database administration [closed]
Let me present myself for better understanding of my challenge. I love coding, it's been 5 years that I've been in a company as software developer. But for the past 3 years I've been quite pushed into ...
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NoSQL, CouchDB vs. CouchBase, What should i do?
I started to encounter some issues on my production site, when having a web page that needs to load a very big ResultSet (currently coming from relational database, MySQL) it takes forever, and ...
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How to sync a table between oracle and sybase
I have a table in Sybase (destination) that I would like to keep it synced with a table in Oracle (source)
I cannot truncate and populate the table in Sybase because it is used by an application, I ...
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How to update SQL Server 2012 from Evalutation to Developer edition?
During the installation of a new development infrastructure, I had to install many SQL Server instances on different machines. Some were of course dedicated for production and some other for ...
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Is this an appropriate development environment MySQL backup strategy?
I'm a web developer and I use primarily my own laptop at work. We use an SVN repository for our project codebases, and deploy our changes to an internal development server for testing.
Our system ...
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How to setup local database development process for small web team?
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I am working on creating a new development process for a small web team of about 4 programmers and 4 designers, with the obvious potential to grow the team in the future.
Our product is a ...
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Easy or Schedulable way to move data from Production to Test
What I am looking to do, is schedule a copy of data from my production database to my dev/test database.
The dev/test database will be newer than the production database in terms of schema, but the ...
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Does a DBA need to know how to program in a system language besides SQL?
To what extent does a Database Administrator need to know system or application level programming languages (for example .NET or PHP) besides "just SQL"?
For the purposes of this question, no ...
