Is There a Shortage of SQL Server Experts?

Do you think we have enough SQL Server experts? Article from Brain indicate there are shortage in SQL Server experts.

“There are certainly many world-class SQL Server experts, and there have been for quite some time. I suppose it’s more of a matter if there are enough available to satisfy demand. One observation I’ll make is that many of “famous” SQL Server experts I know are consultants who presumably aren’t interested in working full-time for a single company in a DBA capacity. Note that I didn’t say the best SQL Server people are consultants; I used the word “famous.” I’ve long suspected that for every PASS pre-con speaker there are dozens of people who are just as talented on a technical level and don’t desire to be famous or simply haven’t had the break that propels them to attention on the community stage. So, I wonder—am I right about that? If I’m right, then I suspect that the lack of expert and very senior SQL Server technologists is largely perception rather than reality.”

Getting Job Category for the SQL Server Agent Jobs

Getting Job Category

There are Job categories associated with SQL Server Agent Jobs. As you know you can get the job information by querying sysjobs system table.

SELECT J.name as jobName,C.name Category FROM sysjobs J

INNER JOIN syscategories C ON J.category_id = C.category_id

WHERE C.category_class = 1

Now you can see this is not huge query. But the problem is Microsoft documentation, If you go the sysjobs documentation as shown in the following image, id does not say from which table you should get the category from. Since job category table does not have job prefix it is bit difficult to find this out.

But the documentation not that bad since you have http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms181367.aspx page which will tell you all the related tables for the Agent Jobs. However, it would have been much better if this information is mention at the sysjobs documentation itself.

Dilbert & SQL Function

I am not a fan of Dilbert. But this seems to be something related to SQL.