brand-name and version "requirements", ridiculous
So, you've provided yet another example of ridiculous "requirements" from 2 POV. They're demanding a particular brand-name and version, a well as demanding an unreasonable amount of experience with that version.
OTOH, SQL has been around since about 1980.
If you've picked up a little data-base analysis and/or design, a little about common tuning strategies, have some familiarity with report generation and with some of the common issues, you could do the work on any brand of RDBMS, with just a few hours of experimentation to ferret out which of the variants this particular brand and version uses at certain fairly well known points... or just figure them out as the work actually requires you to touch the variant details and thus spread it over a few days.
Yet, they claim, "Oh, no, you couldn't possibly be able to be productive within 2 months without 5 years of experience with this specific set-up. This requires extensive detailed knowledge. You need to 'hit the ground running' and you couldnt' possibly do that... But I just can't understand why we can't seem to find any 'qualified' candidates willing to work 80 hours/week for $20/hour and no over-time pay. This req has been open for months and months." Pffff!
