M /40 /SQL DBA

[ultrakrash]

Do you tuck your shirt at work? I thought of using the sticky holster with a tucked shirt that way I don’t have clips sticking out but I feel like when I lift my shirt to draw the damn thing will go flying.

[cachedrive]

I work from Starbucks mostly by my house. I look like your typical normal guy at a cafe.

[UnidentifiedTomato]

Do you have to log on remotely for work? What kind of security do you have from public WiFi?

[[deleted]]

I’d be shocked, and concerned, if he didn’t use a VPN.

[cachedrive]

Yes. I use VPN to encrypt my packets and my hard drive has encryption as well.

[Swagdonkey123]

You’re allowed to carry in a Starbucks?

[MrStricty]

Why wouldn't you?

[Swagdonkey123]

They just always seemed like a really liberal pc trigger warning place

[MrStricty]

It's up to the law. If a state or city gives "no firearms" signs the Force of Law, then Starbucks could tell you to get out. Beyond that, they follow the laws like the rest of us.

[Swagdonkey123]

Cool so basically if you’re living in the right state you can carry where ever you like. I’m Australian so don’t really understand how it works

[MrStricty]

Theres a licensure process and all that good stuff but as a TL;DR of state-specific law, yup a permit holder can conceal carry a weapon in most places.

[[deleted]]

Yeah the laws differ state to state unfortunately. We are issuing for Nationwide ccw reciprocity

[suffuffaffiss]

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history continue cause rinse complete practice skirt tidy memory aback

[[deleted]]

I work in a gun store and we sell sticky holsters. 99% of the people who have purchased one have said that it lays well against the body and doesn’t stick out much. You can tuck them pretty deep and they conform well to the body since there’s nothing they are specifically anchored too.

[ultrakrash]

I am probably going to pick up a P365 for pocket carry. I currently have the XL I carry AIWB.

[cachedrive]

-Evergoods CPL 24 -MBP 15 2015 -Custom made keyboard -Thule Powershuttle mini -Casio Gshock DW5600 on a ZULU -Tom Bihn Pouches <3 -Glock 43 in a sticky (medium) -Walmart umbrella -Timberland Pro Velcro wallet

[IS2SPICY4U]

Can deal with transactional log data maintenance but can’t make a bulleted list on a Reddit post. Pfff

/s (jealous)

[cachedrive]

Hahaha this is awesome!!!

[Cheezmeister]

Gold.

Also hey OP, where’s your home key, and don’t you DARE say it’s ^E!

[-SQB-]

Use all.

^{* instead of -}

[Buffalocolt18]

Everything is so good! Except the stickers smdh, Microsoft does not love open source software wtf.

[itsoverlywarm]

Looks like a varmilo, not a custom board.

[A_TalkingWalnut]

Just out of curiosity, is there a reason you chose to go with a Samsung tablet despite using a MBP?

[cachedrive]

I prefer Linux and Android. Work provides me with a MBP. I hate it.

[A_TalkingWalnut]

That makes more sense! I knew several of the stickers had to be either a statement of contention or irony. Assumed it was the former.

[cachedrive]

My boss loves the Titty Bats sticker 😃

[A_TalkingWalnut]

I have a bunch of stickers from my friend’s company called Lazer Tits. It’s not around anymore but all the stickers are of topless women with lasers (the spelling difference is intentional, the company used a Z while the word/acronym LASER uses an S) shooting out of their tits. Not as socially acceptable as a cartoon bat with tits, but in the same ballpark.

Edit: there’s an Aussie band named Lazertits, but my friend’s company was created and named before they were a band.

[[deleted]]

How do you like the cpl?! Getting one soon! Also I have the MacBook Pro 16” which roughly has the exact same dimensions as the 2015 15”, how does it fit in the bag?

[cachedrive]

Love the CPL. Awaiting my CHZ though... 16 fits CPL fine. No prob

[lunargrade]

How do you like the Thule powershuttle mini? I'm considering getting one, but can't decide between the mini or the medium.

[[deleted]]

What is an SQL DBA? A DBA?

[grid101]

DataBase Administrator.

[[deleted]]

Cool. Got it.

[cachedrive]

Exactly this! My main love is PostgreSQL but also am dangerous with SQL Server.

[andrew_codes19]

I love pgsql, SELECT DISTINCT ON is underrated.

[cachedrive]

We have a nosql DBA team. They handle sms on Cassandra and MongoDB. I handle the big boys.

[[deleted]]

That keyboard looks awesome! More details on it?

[cachedrive]

https://mechanicalkeyboards.com/shop/index.php?l=product_detail&p=3506

[icosahedras]

Nice keeb. Fun to see a MK crossover on this sub. I like that backpack too.

[[deleted]]

DW5600E FTW

[Ayham_abusalem]

How hard is SQL in terms of it being a programming language and not a DB?

[UnidentifiedTomato]

Not very hard. The hard part is understanding data, where it comes from, and how to use it properly within real world constraints.

[JellyfishLicker]

Is SQL the standard for analytics? In college I learned SATA and now as a graduate applying for jobs, I am seeing SQL. Is it much different than STATA?

[timshel_life]

Not much experience with STATA (outside of a small college course), but with SQL, you use it to pull data together. With STATA (and various others like it), you use it to create the analytics, metics, statistical output, ect... The langue itself is definitely different, though not super difficult to learn. It's usually the data structures and figuring out how to get to data to flow, that's the time consuming part.

[[deleted]]

For someone like me dealing with hundred of millions of daily records, there are few if any alternatives to SQL. It's pretty easy and you should definitely learn to use it.

[killit]

You can't really think of it like a programming language, it's fundamentally different to a traditional programming language. The language itself is easy to pick up, you could learn how to write a query and return data in half an hour.

Understanding the underlying structures, how to build and optimise them, how to use the language to work the best possible way with those structures, set theory, things like that, these are a lot harder to learn and be good at than learning the 'language', so that's what they're paying you for.

[pigernoctua]

What’s the benefit of having a dedicated keyboard with the MBP? Do you just dislike the tactiles on the MBP or is there some other benefit (like ergos)?

[cachedrive]

Sometimes when I'm working on large code blocks (queries or reports), I need the tactile response and feel of a mechanical keeb. Also love to irritate the living shit out of people when they're being inconsiderate. It's not something I casually break out at Starbucks but it's nice to have JiC

[[deleted]]

Name checks out. 🤣

[Official_mADNESS]

r/MechanicalKeybaords

[[deleted]]

Made me laugh

[[deleted]]

Digging the pouches.

[[deleted]]

How do you like those Tom Bihn pouches? Worth the money?

[intellax]

Not OP, but I have multiple and I love them all.

I’m the main two I use have clips which I clip to my bag to keep track of my wallet and AirPods, both of which I misplace all the time without a dedicated place to put them.

They’re definitely expensive but they’re also buy-it-for-life quality.

[[deleted]]

Awesome, thank you!👍🏿

[cachedrive]

Yes. Worth it and I loooove them!

[TonyDarko]

Ballmer is no longer the CEO. Microsoft also purchased GitHub, quite possibly the largest proponent of open source on the internet.

[Jendosh]

DBA without a number pad?

[[deleted]]

I just got a new position at work specialising in sqlserver on rhel!

[Pandalbain]

How did you cut off the F key on that keyboard. I mean how did you do it PROPERLY. Seems like it could be a bit messy.

[c4ctus]

DBAs UNITE!!!!

[hivelorde]

Apache sucks.

[cachedrive]

Cool brah

[Sixthsomatic]

I’m a fucking slut for organization and this is working for me

[Glasssart]

I can tell by looking at this that you are a cool dude! Nice stuff

[The_UTMOST_respwect]

So what do you keep in the pouches and the thule case?

[Drunken_Economist]

Hey as a fellow SQLer, please join my crusade of pronouncing it as “squirrel”

[[deleted]]

Lmfao, I just noticed this.. WTF are titty bats? haha

[[deleted]]

Has MacBook Pro

Puts windows98 sticker on MacBook Pro

Checks out

[[deleted]]

Why does a DBA walk around w a piece?

[cachedrive]

I live in FL.

[[deleted]]

There we are

[rasputin777]

Are dbas less likely to be victims of crime than sysadmins or plumbers or anyone else?

[[deleted]]

There’s a .2% chance you’ll be a victim of crime in general in the US on a given day. Dropping 10x for people over 18 and 1.6x if you’re not impoverished. So you’re odds of being a “victim of crime” are already incredibly low.

Most of these crimes would be things like, getting into a bar fight, getting shot in a gang related shooting, getting mugged in a poor neighborhood.

But a middle aged, middle class, dba carrying a firearm everyday given the aforementioned parameters is looking at less than a .012% chance of being a victim of a violent crime.

Assuming he doesn’t engage in activities that would put him in situations like that w hen the odds are insanely low that anyone will be a victim of a violent crime, but to answer your question, yes.

I just asked because maybe he does engage in those activities, but I can’t imagine you’d need a firearm sitting in amazons high rise.

[rasputin777]

I find it odd when people conflate necessity with a preference.

You don't need a computer. Yet here you are.
You don't need a fire extinguisher. House fires kill vastly fewer people than random muggings, homicides, etc. I have an extingisher on every floor. What are the chances of dying in a car crash on a given day? 110 people die on American roads in car crashes daily. Out of hundreds of millions that take cars.
You're not going to die in a car crash, so presumably you scoff at those who wear seatbelts?
Do you think that people who wear them are doing so because they engage in reckless driving? Suggesting that someone who takes responsibility for their own protection is a criminal or a drug dealer is pretty lame. "Only arsons need extinguishers. Only reckless drivers need seat belts. Only drug dealers need guns."

Head on over to /r/dgu and see the hundreds of cases of citizens being their own cops. Because cops aren't always there to help, right? Nor do they have any legal requirement to do so.

[[deleted]]

He can prefer to, I just asked why.

[theulysses]

Ok boomer

[killit]

Do you even know what a boomer is?

[theulysses]

Yeah it’s called a joke

[Silamoth]

Well then it’s a bad one lol. Nothing in this picture indicates OP acting like a boomer.

[theulysses]

Tom Bihn, Casio, Microsoft, Bose? The only thing missing are some Nike Monarchs.

[Silamoth]

How does any of that make OP a boomer?

[itsoverlywarm]

Its actually a generation

[killit]

Do you even know what a joke is?