A key function of a DBA is to plan, test, and implement disaster recovery policies for the databases they maintain.  DBAs lacking these skills may also find themselves lacking a job if they are unable to recover data when necessary.  For all these skills we apply in the workplace, I have still heard via Twitter [...]

Every once in a while I hope to use this blog to investigate the lighter side of database/computing topics.  After all, redundancy can (and should!) exist in many more places than corporate network architectures.  One of the places you may be surprised to hear about redundancy is college marching bands, which I feel more than [...]