I would like to know what DBMS you guys would suggest learning and why? Oracle, SQL Server, etc. I am a college student interested in perusing a career as a production DBA. I have had a class on databases specifically already and the topic comes up frequently in other classes/projects. In my database class we learned SQL and used Oracle, primarily working in SQL Plus and just wrote the SQL statements to create tables, run queries etc.

I would learn the platform Twitter just used to replace Ruby on Rails on it's backend. Scala? I am not sure it is a RDBMS. I just here a lot about multi core usage...

it's not a RDBMS. Whoops.

mysql

because it's free, it's dead simple to install (even a non-DBA like me can do it), really easy to use (if you install a front end app like HeidiSQL), and, more importantly, it's so ubiquitous

There was an artical I thought about sending you Rudy. It was all about how Facebook is tangled up and trying to figure a way out of it's 4000 server MySQL implimentation.

There it is... A fate worse than death...
Facebook trapped in MySQL ‘fate worse than death’ — Cloud Computing News

Of course I hate all of that NOSQL and NewSQL talk. Bunch of hooey. A poor craftsman always blames his tools.

let's not even ~think~ about how fscked up they woulda been if they had tried it on ahem microsoft sql server

man, i hate web pages like that

it's like downloading a full-length movie before the browser relinquishes control back to me and lets me start scrolling (i'm a fast reader)

stupid corporate bells and whistles idiots

look at this --

297,095 bytes HTML
415,789 bytes Images
220,380 bytes Javascript
204,461 bytes CSS

"total number of objects on this page is 59 which by their number will dominate web page delay"
-- Web Page Analyzer - free website optimization tool website speed test check website performance report from web site optimization

No broadband to your igloo in the great white north?

ha ha

notice, though, how i successfully deflected the topic away from the favourite subject of resident dbforums habitués (mysql bashing), to compensating for the embarassment of living in cesspool amerika by making fun of a superior culture (canada bashing)

yeah, i have cable internet, and that page still sucks the big one

I would'nt pat yourself on the back too hard. I am easily distracted like a baby and a set of keys.

I think that writer is confusing "poorly designed application" with "runs on MySQL". It ind of reminds me of this: But is your database web scale? - Bentalkstrash

that is HILARIOUS!!! thanks so much, mcrowley

"why not write to devnull? it's fast as hell"

"does devnull support sharding?"

"holy shit! for my own mental health i'm going to assume you're just messing with me and aren't actually retarded"

classic

thanks for that. make sure you have headphones if you are at work for that one.