I'll agree with you, except that when he accepted the job it was not to 
tell the
coders what to do, it was for him to get it done.  The job title was
Developement Database Administrator and the job description clearly 
stated what
the person needed to be able to accomplish, coding being one of them.

But of course, there is blame to be put on those who inteviewed him and 
thought
he'd be a good "do-it" person.


-Mario


Quoting wouter van ooijen <wouter@voti.nl>:

>> Yeah, we recently just fired a phd person after 9 months on the job
>> because all
>> he could do was theorize.  He could spend days on end
>> discussing the pros and cons of clustered versus nonclustered
>> indexes (database world) but when
>> it came
>> down to it, he couldn't get the database work done.
>>
>> Really inteligent guy, could probably do well as a professor
>> somewhere, but out in the real world.....
>
> Out in the real real world (at least in the one I have been in) such
> persons where needed (although not in large numbers) to make the
> decisions for the code grunts who could implementent anything as long as
> they were told what to implement.
>
> Wouter van Ooijen
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