Comments on: Doing something about the SysAdminDay DBA snub

By: eric

eric — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 05:50:03 +0000

August 17th – birthday of the DBA “god”

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 00:23:04 +0000

I noticed that in the link
http://groups.google.com/group/net.unix-wizards/msg/ecfd0a3ea301b284?dmode=source&hl=en

The mail message was sent from a VAX, one of the original platforms Ellison used to enhance the Oracle product. There is a whole history behind where it originally came from etc…

I vote for the Friday during the week of the 23rd of August.

By: Ted

Ted — Sat, 05 Aug 2006 04:15:08 +0000

Don’t fret! DBAs are included in System Administrator Appreciation Day. Happy SysAdminDay!!!

Ted

Ted@SysAdminDay.com

By: Doug Burns

Doug Burns — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 13:23:31 +0000

John said …

“Many of the people in the dba community are not exactly characterized by a wild propensity for frivolity.”

Speak for yourself, mate ;-)

By: joel garry

joel garry — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 21:11:41 +0000

How about March 24? That’s the date of the oldest message archived on google that refers to oracle as a dbms (1982)…

http://groups.google.com/group/net.unix-wizards/msg/ecfd0a3ea301b284?dmode=source&hl=en

Really, I’d like to nominate the date of the first customer relational db startup, but I don’t know what that is. I think the Oracle histories all have the granularity “year.”

Database Administrator was a distinct job function long before relational databases, of course.

By: Mogens NÃ¸rgaard

Mogens NÃ¸rgaard — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 21:01:21 +0000

Codd’s birthday is a good choice. Lex de Haan’s death day (1st of February, 2006) is another possibility. He chose it because 3 x 42 is 126. 3 for his love of three-valued logic, 42 because it’s the answer and 126 is the date.

I’d be more than happy to have Miracle part- or wholly sponsor some award for this excellent day, and I don’t mean it like we have to get publicity out of it, and all that stuff. It’s simply a good idea and we have the money for it.

As for the marching around like Danish soldiers, here’s a picture of my marching team: http://www.nijmegenmarch.dk/

By: Paul Vallee

Paul Vallee — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 19:09:07 +0000

John – re: the marching around pretending we are Danish soldiers, Mogens Norgaard would really love that tradition I’m sure… I’ll have to forward your suggestion to him! :-)

I agree with an anchor date but like you suggest it would be preferable if it always were a weekday, since let’s face it it’s not like anyone is going to think of their DBAs during their weekends, unless of course they are users in the office doing acceptance testing after a major upgrade!

Raj thinks I should come up with a budget for a DBA of the Year award based on nominations. Any other ideas for annual celebratory events or otherwise?

Paul

By: John Hurley

John Hurley — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 13:58:43 +0000

Codd’s birthday looks like a good anchor point.

How about the nearest friday on or after Codd’s birthday each year.

Then the next question is “what do we do actually to celebrate this event”.

Many of the people in the dba community are not exactly characterized by a wild propensity for frivolity.

Maybe we could march around and pretend we are danish soldiers?

By: Alex Gorbachev

Alex Gorbachev — Sat, 29 Jul 2006 10:17:52 +0000

Hi Raj. I like your “under construction” page. :)
ORA-24123 feature “dbaday” is not yet implemented

Dr. Codd is famous for relational model but there are other kind of databases as well, though, not that popular today. Anyway, Codd’s birthday looks as good as any other summer day.

Actually, maybe it’s better to hang to something like last/first/second/etc. Friday of the month? :)