I have a quick quiz for you.  What does the acronym “OCM” stand for?
A. Ohio College of Massotherapy
B. Optoelectronic Components and Materials
C. Orbit Correction Maneuver
D. Olympic Council of Malaysia
E. All of the above
If you answered (E), you get a gold star.  And you’re either good with tests or have quite the diverse set of interests.  [...]

A popular saying is “It ain’t so much the things we don’t know that get us into trouble. It’s the things we know that just ain’t so.” Wikiquote attributes it to a 19th century American humorist named Artemus Ward but The Quote Verifier: Who Said What, Where, and When attributes it to another 19th century [...]

The life of a DBA is often led in isolation.  In many IT organizations, you’ll have a variety of disciplines, programmers, analysts, systems administrators, network engineers, project managers, etc.  And then there’s the DBA, often working alone, wedged between the developers and the SAs.  Maybe we like it that way.  We’re captains of our respective [...]