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Diary 27th Aug: Sit-in with SQL Dev Team

I don't know if I put the blog as "diary" then how long as I could stick it out...
Any way, today is an interesting day...

Per great support from management team, I got the "sit-in" opportunity with our SQL Shanghai R&D team members, 1 development engineer & 1 test engineer were assigned as my buddy, the next thing I need to do is to s+ their time, I blocked Monday with dev and tomorrow with test engineer, so here we go...

I woke up earlier today, (I mean than ususal) 6:40AM, arrived at around 8:30, and brought my bag directly to dev's cubic, call him "Su" here. He arranged a cubic for me, but I'd rather sitting together with him, so I could see even every lind of code he wrote on the screen, that's crazy :P

First of all, he introduced what we are doing for now: He's currently working in MDAC team, DP devision. MDAC is a technology which allows connect to SQL Server through ADO, ODBC, OLE DB etc. And this morning he just received an bug report from our vendor (we outsourcing our test to vendors' team), mentioned an error reported on connection procedure. So he's reproduce the procedure and locate the bug...and the following steps are out of my knowledge, so I have to keep the following as blank :D

Shame to say, it's the first time I learned Alt+Tab, seems they are more used with keyboard.

So, this is a debug day, and it's not a tipical day for the dev here, just happened have no chance to see their daily dev work. During the debug, people came and passed, his team mates came to discuss questions, at the begining, they would question: hey, su, you got a new partner? And I would love to kidding that: hey, I'm monitoring his work...

In the noon time, people discuss about some IT news, today's topic is about a company that Microsoft planned to purchase, and how did they feel about that company's product...

In 10:00 AM there's a regular team meeting, to help members to sync up the progress, the meeting was held in the rest room, so you will not curious about the member who attending meeting mean while enjoying the massage.

And I'm glad I could even help in the solving the bug, just kidding, he he, a staff I hired was from Oracle, he also contributed his idea on solving this bug, so , the rock was moved away from the road...

Before end of the day, I also had a 1:1 with Su, talking about his previous work and IT industry, we also sync up on some interview skills, what & how to ask, he explained to me an tipical interview question he was experienced and the soluction for that question....

At the end, update you what we are using here, this just applies to this specific team, may not apply to whole SQL team:

What's the programming language we using for development?
C, C++
What else?
VB or C# will be a plus, sometimes we use them to write some test cases/tools for test/debug...
What else?
ADO, COM. (Please note, this only applies to MDAC this specific team, other teams are different, for e.g. knowledge of XML etc...)
What's the programing environment?
Windows OS, no kidding
What's Su's previous programming environment?
Linux & Unix, see, previous background is not a solid must.
What's the editor using?
Su's love, Emacs. See, up to your favorite.

What's more & more...
See my coming blogs.

tags: SQL Server Team career opportunity

@ 20070828 05:57:00 with 1 comments

20070828 17:08:00: freedo from
Above talked about Microsoft Data Access Components, for more info of "What are MDAC, DA SDK, ODBC, OLE DB, ADO, RDS, and ADO/MD?", may check out here:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/190463/zh-cn