SQLRNNR (7/9/2014)

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PHYData DBA (7/9/2014)

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I could care less about someone stealing my ideas. However there are those out there that treat abuse the community like many abuse Welfare or Food...

OCTom (7/9/2014)

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karthik babu (7/8/2014)

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I agree with the author. No words for people who are not willing to share their ideas as they don't belong to this world. Are they sure...

AMEN!

A good book on this subject to which I have recently been introduced is "Death By Meeting" by Patrick Lencioni - Mr. Lencioni outlines a hypothetical business situation - a...

I enjoy the day-to-day variation and problem solving, and the "wow" that comes from time to time when I figure out a new way to do so something or see...

Interesting conundrum - more importantly, are those who would take the money disqualified? {-:

My thoughts:

http://nebrasql.blogspot.com/2011/11/industry-problem-according-to.html

Thanks for a great article as usual Steve!

We have had some discussion on the Salary survey sites here in my office regarding how they don't take platform into account either - at least in our market Oracle...

Rod at work (7/22/2011)

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Good question for a Friday, Steve. My short answer to your question is, no. I don't really know my market value is in my local...

Thanks for a thoroughly depressing topic - nothing like having 9 years experience and being in the bottom quadrant of your alleged salary range:

We have recently started using KeePass as well and consider it very useful.

In our environment we are mostly production DBA's, but we are production DBA's on 90% purchased/vendor applications; as such we spend a significant amount of time troubleshooting and rolling...

Although I finally attended a major training event on the company dime for the first time in three years (SQLConnections in Orlando) I would still have to say things are...

Unfortunately with the economy and my expanding family I can't even make the commitment to attend the Summit, let alone volunteer for a position that requires travel, etc....and my company...

jay holovacs (3/24/2010)

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Andy-452557 (3/24/2010)

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It's interesting that this is so much an "East vs. West" issue - but living in the Midwest (Nebraska - smack dab in the middle) it is...