Comments on: I can do Magic http://www.made2mentor.com/2009/04/i-can-do-magic/ Data Warehousing, Microsoft Business Intelligence, and Other Cool Stuff Tue, 10 Jan 2012 15:10:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Can You Farm? A Discussion of DBA Roles | Made2Mentor http://www.made2mentor.com/2009/04/i-can-do-magic/comment-page-1/#comment-6600 Can You Farm? A Discussion of DBA Roles | Made2Mentor Thu, 10 Dec 2009 12:55:38 +0000 http://www.made2mentor.com/?p=1498#comment-6600 [...] whole notion that computer professionals can do anything with a computer stems from the belief that what we do is magic. Since they don’t have any idea how we do our jobs, they think that we can just cross over into [...] [...] whole notion that computer professionals can do anything with a computer stems from the belief that what we do is magic. Since they don’t have any idea how we do our jobs, they think that we can just cross over into [...]

]]> By: Users are Amazed by the Wrong Things | Made2Mentor http://www.made2mentor.com/2009/04/i-can-do-magic/comment-page-1/#comment-5792 Users are Amazed by the Wrong Things | Made2Mentor Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:34:16 +0000 http://www.made2mentor.com/?p=1498#comment-5792 [...] is all well and good, but it just serves to remind me that most people have very little idea of what we do or how we do it. The project was a success due to thorough planning and development, which insured data accuracy [...] [...] is all well and good, but it just serves to remind me that most people have very little idea of what we do or how we do it. The project was a success due to thorough planning and development, which insured data accuracy [...]

]]> By: Kay http://www.made2mentor.com/2009/04/i-can-do-magic/comment-page-1/#comment-1750 Kay Thu, 30 Apr 2009 05:26:25 +0000 http://www.made2mentor.com/?p=1498#comment-1750 The spell sounds like some mangled Indonesian words - need a translation? The spell sounds like some mangled Indonesian words – need a translation?

]]> By: Jason Griffith http://www.made2mentor.com/2009/04/i-can-do-magic/comment-page-1/#comment-1739 Jason Griffith Wed, 29 Apr 2009 20:30:24 +0000 http://www.made2mentor.com/?p=1498#comment-1739 If we find any more shared interests, this is going to get a little freaky. And if you're thinking about taking over the world again, don't make me call your brother. Oh yeah, and it's probably better if you wear the red robes again, that black makes you look a little to sinister with the hourglass eye thing going on there. While I have read the majority of the Dragonlance novels in existence, or at least the ones published up through a couple of years ago, I take mine slightly beyond just being a magic user. Oh, and we're called Wizards these days, not magic users (that was back in the 90's). ;) Along with reading the books, I've been playing Dungeons & Dragons since I was 9 years old. Being in a small town where there aren't a whole lot of other people that play, that generally meant that I ran the games as the Dungeon Master while my friends were the players. I like programming because I like to be the Dungeon Master. I like to be the one that creates the whole world and all the rules within it. I like to tell everyone else what they can and can't do in this world that I created, and then let them figure out how to accomplish their goals with the tools I have provided. When you try to abuse the power that I give you within my world, then it's time to roll initiative because I'm bringing out the monsters. And if you really do something wrong in my world, then I've got an Ancient Red Wyrm that would love to eat your face. In other words, I'm a software developer and DBA, and I like to build things from the ground up. A wizard has his set guidelines that he has to follow, and he lives within a realm created by another (with M2M and VFP being the topic here, Forgotten Realms might be a better setting than Dragonlance). If he breaks the rules of that realm, then his spells either do things they weren't meant to do (like deleting the INMAST table), or they don't work at all. When you are managing a system built by somebody else, you have to stick within the bounds of the world that they have created for you. Therein lies the world of the wizard. You're free to research your own spells (generally from the FastForms school of magic) and hopefully you travel to another plane (such as the Test Server) when you test them out, but always are you bound by their rules. And yes, when I'm not the Dungeon Master, I'm typically a wizard. What can I say, I'm a big fan of magic. If we find any more shared interests, this is going to get a little freaky. And if you’re thinking about taking over the world again, don’t make me call your brother. Oh yeah, and it’s probably better if you wear the red robes again, that black makes you look a little to sinister with the hourglass eye thing going on there.

While I have read the majority of the Dragonlance novels in existence, or at least the ones published up through a couple of years ago, I take mine slightly beyond just being a magic user. Oh, and we’re called Wizards these days, not magic users (that was back in the 90′s). ;)

Along with reading the books, I’ve been playing Dungeons & Dragons since I was 9 years old. Being in a small town where there aren’t a whole lot of other people that play, that generally meant that I ran the games as the Dungeon Master while my friends were the players.

I like programming because I like to be the Dungeon Master. I like to be the one that creates the whole world and all the rules within it. I like to tell everyone else what they can and can’t do in this world that I created, and then let them figure out how to accomplish their goals with the tools I have provided. When you try to abuse the power that I give you within my world, then it’s time to roll initiative because I’m bringing out the monsters. And if you really do something wrong in my world, then I’ve got an Ancient Red Wyrm that would love to eat your face. In other words, I’m a software developer and DBA, and I like to build things from the ground up.

A wizard has his set guidelines that he has to follow, and he lives within a realm created by another (with M2M and VFP being the topic here, Forgotten Realms might be a better setting than Dragonlance). If he breaks the rules of that realm, then his spells either do things they weren’t meant to do (like deleting the INMAST table), or they don’t work at all. When you are managing a system built by somebody else, you have to stick within the bounds of the world that they have created for you. Therein lies the world of the wizard. You’re free to research your own spells (generally from the FastForms school of magic) and hopefully you travel to another plane (such as the Test Server) when you test them out, but always are you bound by their rules.

And yes, when I’m not the Dungeon Master, I’m typically a wizard. What can I say, I’m a big fan of magic.

]]> By: Brent Ozar http://www.made2mentor.com/2009/04/i-can-do-magic/comment-page-1/#comment-1705 Brent Ozar Tue, 28 Apr 2009 20:18:03 +0000 http://www.made2mentor.com/?p=1498#comment-1705 HA! Wow, I never thought to look at it that way. I grumble when I hear my relatives say things like, "Can't you fix my antivirus? You do work with computers, right?" Now I kinda get it - it does all look the same from the outside. HA! Wow, I never thought to look at it that way. I grumble when I hear my relatives say things like, “Can’t you fix my antivirus? You do work with computers, right?” Now I kinda get it – it does all look the same from the outside.

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