[The "Practicing" DBA As a blow in to the DBA world from the exciting world of System Administrator, I found the transition extremely interesting. Not so much for the stuff that SQL can do (which is pretty cool), but for the manner in which I found myself able to destroy things in random fashion. So this is for the once a week heroes and new DBA's, a journey through some random mishaps. Also it might give some DBA's an insight into how your database is hosted can affect its performance and stability.]