Database jokes

Sometimes when work is tough you simply need to take your eyes and mind away from your working console. Jokes are one matter that you can take a look on and smile yourself or share with a colleague.

A SQL query walks into a bar and sees two tables. He walks up to them and says “Can I join you?”

Then a waitress walks up and says “Nice view”.

At what time do the SQL developers start work? Generally about three hours after they arrive in the morning.

Q1: What did the DBA say to the Developer?

A: It doesn’t matter, he wasn’t listening anyway.

Q2: What did the Developer say to the DBA?

A: It doesn’t matter, the answer was no.

DBA 1: “How many developers work at your office?”

DBA 2: “Oh, about half of them!”

There are two types of DBAs:

1) DBAs that do backups

2) DBAs that will do backups


A: They sometimes drop the table.

 SQL Table walks to a psychiatrist dr. Index

 Table: “Doctor, I have a problem”

 Dr: “what kind a problem?”




Q: When did God create the DBA?

A. The day before he had his rights revoked.


A: QA testers don’t change anything. They just report that it’s dark.


A: Just one. But the house falls down.

Q. What if you are too late to office and the manager catches you?

A. Ad hoc updates to system catalogs are not allowed!

Q. What if your Dad or Mom loses his or her car keys?

A. Parent keys not found.

Q. What if you see the theatre full when you go to a movie?

A: Maximum number of users exceeded.

Q. What if you don’t get a table in the lunch room?

A. There is insufficient system memory in resource pool

Q. What if you dial a wrong number from your phone?

A. Object does not exist or the name specified is incorrect!

Q. What if you need to go on a diet?

A. ALTER DATABASE command failed.

Q. What if you are tall and try to adjust into a mini?


Q. What if your old girl friend spots you with your new girlfriend?

A. Normalization error in the node. Rule contains more than one variable.

Q. What if the golf ball doesn’t get into the hole at all and then you find the hole already contains no space inside it?

A. Cannot insert explicit value for identity column in table when IDENTITY_INSERT is set to OFF.

Q. What if you try to freak out with somebody else’s girlfriend and being kicked out?

A. Insufficient privileges on the specified object.

Q. What if you don’t get any response from the girl next door and her Brother hits you?

A. Operand type clash: datatype is incompatible.

Q. What if you get response from the girl next door and from her sister too?

A. SELECT INTO returns too many rows.


A: They sometimes drops the table.

Nobody knows what a DBA does, but every company needs to hire one, because no one can afford to hire two.


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