Being an Accidental DBA

I heard the term “Accidental DBA” and knew there were kindred souls out there.  For me has worked out as, “You’re not afraid of the database? Congratulations, you’re the new expert.”  This always made me feel like something was wrong, after all I had graduated in Computer Science, I had learned software development, had I failed?  But now I find I really like databases, so I’m starting to embrace it more instead of hiding from it.  So the blog is in part to share things I’ve learned and in part to remember them so I can find it again later.