[dba-SQLServer] Off The Beaten Path

Yip but some poor sod needs to look after those big databases!

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From: Arthur Fuller
Sent: 18/10/2011 20:55
To: Discussion concerning MS SQL Server
Subject: Re: [dba-SQLServer] Off The Beaten Path

Perhaps you could point me to some articles describing why I should learn
this, because so far I have failed to see its point. Seems to me they are
just stuffing everything into a database, which I could just as simply do
myself. But I've been wrong before, so this wouldn't come as big news.

A.

On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 3:00 PM, Martin Reid <mwp.reid at qub.ac.uk> wrote:

> Big market for SharePoint
>
> Martin
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>
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> I'm trying to get reemployed and back in the job market.  I'm also working
> (very hard) on obtaining a SQL Server certification as having such a cert
> will make me more marketable - especially in the database field.  I have
> been in contact with a major job search web site.  I received a response
> (to
> an initial inquiry) from one of their people today.  I have responded to
> that initial contact as follows.  Please read this.  If any of you have any
> ideas (or "leads") that might be helpful, please feel free to contact me
> off
> list.  I'm trying to be very flexible and thinking "outside the box" as I
> attempt to get back in the game.
>
>
>
> Alan C. Lawhon
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>
> Chasity:  (that is her name .)
>
>
>
> Thanks for responding to my inquiry.  I will follow up on your advice and
> spend time on your site.  (I suppose it would be a good idea to post my
> resume and a generic cover letter.)
>
>
>
> I have a general type question which I hope you can answer.  I intimated
> about this in my earlier post, but I wonder if your firm has a recruiter
> (or
> specialist) who concentrates on attempting to place people in positions
> that
> are difficult to staff?  I'm thinking a job that one of your clients is
> very
> frustrated with since they are having perpetual difficulty finding an
> individual willing to take the job possibly because the job is located on a
> remote island in the middle of an ocean, the job requires a lot of travel,
> or it's a job that married folks (with a family) just would not consider?
>
>
>
> Does [job search site] have a job category entitled: "Jobs Off The Beaten
> Path" or "Jobs Most People Do Not Want"?  (I'm thinking "outside the box"
> here.)  If there is a job (especially outside the continental United
> States)
> that you've been unable to staff for a client, I would certainly like to
> hear about it.  This is off the wall, but if Santa Claus needed a database
> programmer to work with him up there at the North Pole, I could do that!
> Cold climates don't bother me.
>
>
>
> Thanking you for your time and attention to this inquiry, I am
>
>
>
> Sincerely,
>
>
>
> Alan C. Lawhon
>
> Huntsville, Alabama
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