Provides DBA services for Production, test, and development databases
Administers and maintains the production, test, and development databases.
Performs SQL code releases
Reviews application designs for compliance with production acceptance requirements.
Complies with IT policies and procedures, especially those for quality and productivity standards
Complies with Information Security policies and procedures. Verifies deliverables meet Information Security requirements.
Participates in special projects and performs other related duties as assigned.
Operations are 24 x 7. May be required to be on call, work beyond normal business hours

Position Requirements

B.S. in computer science
2 to 3 years experience
Strong written and oral communication skills.
Strong analysis and problem solving skills.
Working knowledge of the following DBA practices and concepts: database backup & recovery, database performance & tuning, database monitoring, and maintenance.
Working knowledge of Visual Source Safe
Strong knowledge of database design and administration
Stored procedure and view development and troubleshooting
Database size management (includes volume/disk mgmt., file and filegroup allocations.)
Basic understanding of Microsoft Clustering technology
Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite
Entry level knowledge of networking
Entry level skill set of database performance tuning/indexing
SSRS, SSIS, and scripting experience a plus.

Interested? (say I referred you on the application form)

QweryBuilder uses innovative ideas to provide developers with the ability to easily insert, extract and modify data from a variety of databases.

The goal of QweryBuilder is to increase a database developer’s productivity. It contains many time saving features.

SQL Editor

QweryBuilder - SQL Editor

• Script auto complete
• Custom auto complete lists
• Code Templates
• Display column list for tables and views in editor
• Display procedure parameters in editor
• Keyboard shortcut to open procedures
• Generate and insert new GUIDs
• Syntax folding
• Auto indenting

Criteria Query

QweryBuilder - Criteria Query

• Form view criteria screen for easy data retrieval
• Updateable result set
  • Insert nulls, GUID’s, and computed values into results
  • Insert, delete and update data rows
  • Generate insert statements from results
  • Create graphs from result data

Graphic Query

QweryBuilder - Graphic Query

• Create queries graphically
• Cross table querying without writing SQL

Other Features

• Support for Microsoft SQL Server, Sybase ASE, SQL Anywhere and Oracle
• DDL Browser
• Database Search
• Visual Difference
• Code Formatter
• Getting Started Window
  • Displays last used connections, files and database objects
  • Easily navigate to the last thing you were working on
• Clipboard Saver
• File Browser
• Object Browser

Image courtesy of VMware

Dell has a demonstration using Microsoft SQL Server where they move the live SQL Server from one blade to another with no outage:

It is the most installed embedded database on the planet hands down.  Don’t believe me?  You know that Firefox web browser, Thunderbird newsreader, most Adobe products, Miro, etc all have it embedded?  – reference http://www.sqlite.org/mostdeployed.html

We use it extensively at work as:

1. staging for mass data imports/exports/conversions
2. local application ‘cache’ for large data sets
3. projects that don’t require all the features of Sybase ASE (or Oracle for that matter)

One of the best features is that the database itself in platform independent… copy the db on to AIX from your Windows box … then on to your old Amiga … then on to your windows mobile device.  Getting the point? 

I really wish Sybase would make it so that the Sybase ASE databases were truly platform and character set/sort order independent… but that is in another dream

Not a blurb in the PowerDesigner/PowerBuilder manuals or anything