Can I be honest with you for a second?
It makes my skin crawl when I hear database people smugly answer a question with “It depends!”
Because most of the time, when they do it, they chuckle as if they know something, and as if what they just said illustrates what an awesome expert they are. They elbow their DBA buddies, who also scoff and nod because they’re in on the DBA joke too, and they all feel superior to whoever asked the question.
And they sit there like the conversation is over, like they’ve finished their answer. They expect