Originally posted by OracleDoc
Personally, I kind of get a sadness (more like a laugh) from a person when . . . . . all their data is going to go down the drain because that manager wasn't smart enough to send his pseudo DBA to get some formal training.
I guess that 9 out of 10 times that's it. About once a week I think, "Poor bastard - here's another guy thrown in the deep-end by his boss". My guess is that 8 out of those 9 times the boss has no idea what he is doing to his pseudo DBA - "It can't be more complicated than Excel, can it?"

The other 1 time out of 10 the signature says OCP - and my blood pressure gets dangerously high.

(Mr.H is right too - we all have panicked, had brain farts etc . . )