Company to Send DBA into Space

cramco writes "Moments ago, a U.K. software company announced at the Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS) conference in Seattle that it would send a lucky contestant to space. The sponsors, Red Gate, is holding a five-week DBA contest with the winner getting a trip to space. Why? And why put them through five weeks of quizzes and technical challenges presented within B-movie-looking videos involving rubber Martians, small dogs, alien body parts and one of their own acting very strangely? Well, as any developer knows, DBA stands for Don't Bother Asking."

Comments

It's a Good Start

[DocDyson]

Maybe if took up a collection we could send all of them? Can we get a half-price deal if we don't want them returned?

No DBA will trust an application with her life

[ElmoGonzo]

And a spacecraft is nothing but a mess of software applications held together with wire and tinfoil.

Send them all, and lawyers too

[Gothmolly]

Send all the DBAs into space, so the rest of us can get work done.

Can I Submit A Candidate?

[Bigbutt]

You don't even have to bring him back...

[John]

Publicity

[madprof]

The company is doing this purely for the publicity. Which Slashdot has now kindly provided!

If this story deserves to be here (and you can argue it either way) then it proves that impressive, but expensive, stunts are definitely worth the investment for any company such as Red Gate.

B-Ark?

[Megane]

So is this a chance to get DBAs onto the B-Ark?

Re:Fun

[geekoid]

No, I'm sure they will grumble how it would be better if they listened to him, as well as bitch about the pilots the whole time. .. and of course never offer a reasonable solution to any of these 'problems' .