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Why? Because their tools suck, so you have to become an expert at 3rd party tools like TOAD that are, granted, decent and can be quite powerful, but have their klunky aspects, not that SQL Server doesn't, but in my experience with TOAD, its klunkiness gets in the way with normal usage, while SQL Server's klunkiness manifests mostly in backup/restore processes.
Marc
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solid, heavy, and old-fashioned.
"even last year's laptops look clunky"
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Oh yeah and then there's the largely unspoken weirdness that I learned about using TOAD to actually compile procs/triggers/packages, particularly when going back and forth between TOAD and SQL*Plus... I wound up with a lot of erratic proc behavior due to "half-compiled/mangled" PL/SQL. 
... having only that moment finished a vigorous game of Wiff-Waff and eaten a tartiflet. - Henry Minute
I'm still looking (eagerly) for wisdom in terms of best practices in OO design; and I doubt I'll ever quit looking. - BillWoodruff
Programming is a race between programmers trying to build bigger and better idiot proof programs, and the universe trying to build bigger and better idiots, so far... the universe is winning. - gavindon
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You don't even begin to realise how high the hourly rate works out to.
Consider that all database reorganisations require days and days of computer time when no other work can be done.
This means that the DBAs work only during long holidays, such as Memorial Day, Labor Day or Thanksgiving and the rest of the year they are twiddling their thumbs.
Consider that even on these days the work consists of starting the Unload process, twiddling thumbs for a day and starting the Reload process and twiddling thumbs for the next two days.
The hourly rates are astronomical.
Nice job if you can get it.
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A controversial experiment has indicated that the universe is not a hologram. Researchers from the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) have taken it upon themselves to test one of the cornerstones of string theory and quantum gravity. "It's all part of my fantasy"
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Come-on! You are not joking?
And what if the 'mainframe' so advanced that can just fake the results of such 'experiment' to prevent from us to see the truth?
(But the truth is that in certain places there are certain people so bored, that anything will do to occupy them)
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: (But the truth is that in certain places there are certain people so bored, that anything will do to occupy them)
And an even greater truth: they got paid for their time, and probably more than you or I would be paid.
Hag Sameach, chaveri.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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The Universe was also probably not created by a sneeze of the Great Green Arkleseizure and will probably not be destroyed by the "Coming of the Great White Handkerchief" 
Until the string theorists can come up with a prediction that is truly falsifiable, their work should be classified as abstract mathematics, not as physics.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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... this has already happened.
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... and no one noticed!
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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I prefer Pascal's version [1]: "The Universe is a fearful [2] sphere whose center is everywhere and circumference is nowhere."
[1] The ancient lineage of this quote traced in this wonderful essay by Jorge Borges: [^]
[2] Borges discovered that the common translation of Pascal's quote into English mistakenly translated the French "effroyable" as "infinite;" it's correct translation is "fearful."
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut.
modified 8-Dec-15 10:10am.
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What difference would it make? How would it affect people's daily lives?
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To make it easier to develop cross-platform code that works well for both Windows and other platforms, we’ve released an additional compiler toolset for Visual Studio called Clang with Microsoft CodeGen. C program compile. C program run. Run program run.
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IDC says that shipments are down more than 10 percent year over year and that the contraction will last at least through 2016 Well, PCs were fun while they lasted. Back to the AS/400s with you!
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The market survey is incomplete. Many people of my acquaintance have replaced or are planning to replace PCs with portables. How is the portable market doing?
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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The PC is dead, down with the establishment and computing forever. You have to take two steps back to leap forward.
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Just so long as it's not a Great Leap Forward. 
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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In this article, I want to share a little of the experience of a career littered with failed technologies and the lessons gained through these experiences. "It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed."
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For me it's DOS->TSR->OS/2->Win32/MFC->ASP/VB6->Java/Struts/Tiles->ASP.NET->HTML/jQuery->Cordova/PhoneGap->Cocos2dx. How many people still even now what TSR stands for? No point of even listing in your resume what you did 10 years ago. Look into the future. Keep your nose in the wind, and your eyes along the skyline.
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TSR - Terminate and Stay Resident.
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I thought he meant that after starting with DOS, he got distracted by a few years playing D&D (published by TSR).
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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You might want to hide this knowledge during interviews - it will reveal how old you are.
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Windows Phone won't breach five percent of worldwide smartphone shipments any time soon They've got the opposition right where they want them
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