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by Tim DiChiara, Senior Site Editor
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Member "Morpheus" recently brought up a perennial controversy in one of our discussion forums: off-shore outsourcing. It's old news that U.S. IT jobs are rapidly migrating to China, India, Russia, and other countries with lower wages to offer. However, I'm very curious about what you enterprise data management pros in our audience think about the issue.
One member responded already: "I think as a general rule companies want to get the most for their money. If the laws are set up to allow you to get competent off shore-development (and the quality is the same), why would you not go off-shore? Companies are in the business of making money, not keeping people employed."
Agree? Disagree? Is this a problem in your company? If so, what's the solution? Developers have likely been already hit by this trend, but what about you DBAs out there? Is remote database administration the "next big thing" in off-shore outsourcing? Let's hear your feedback in our DBA Water Cooler forum.
If you need more background details on the issues, here is some of TechTarget's extensive coverage:
Go to our DBA Water Cooler forum and let us know your thoughts. Feel free to vent, but please keep it civil!
Till next time,
Tim DiChiara, Editor
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The Linux DBMS
by Tim DiChiara, Senior Site Editor
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Linux bandwagon-jumping continues: Oracle and IBM are increasingly pushing it as a mission-critical platform for their DBMSs. But is Linux up to the task? Read the latest news and technical advice inside...
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Featured Expert Mike Lampa, CEO, BAG, Inc.
Category: Database design
Mike is co-founder and CEO of BAG, a Texas-based business intelligence consultancy. He has over 21 years experience in strategic planning, program management, and designing, building and supporting data warehouse and operational data store implementations. Intricately involved in the daily activities of BAG, Mr. Lampa can often be found building data and process models to aid in improved operations efficiency and decision support automation for clients.
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This Week: In the forums
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Using float in a primary key
Member "Jules" wants to use a column of datatype float in a table's primary key but is wary. Are there any reasons for not doing this? Go to our "DBA Water Cooler" forum if you can help. |
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Offshore job migration
Member "Morpheus" brings up a perennial controversy: outsourcing IT work overseas. Database developers have been hit hard by this trend -- do you think database administration is next? Let's hear your (civil) thoughts! Go to our "DBA Water Cooler" forum. |
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JDBC: Database programming with J2EE
A free download of Chapter 1 from the book by Art Taylor. It focuses on JDBC design, how Java works with relational databases, the JDBC API and more. |
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