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Since the article was reposted...
Two of the largest credit charge clearing systems runs on SQL, and has for a long time. The first time I worked on it, it...
December 25, 2015 at 8:19 am
Aaron N. Cutshall (12/18/2015)
Anders Pedersen (12/18/2015)
December 18, 2015 at 9:55 am
My worst experience was doing a 6.5 to 7 upgrade. Worked 6 AM to 9 PM, 6 days a week, for about 9 months. No complaints, it needed...
December 18, 2015 at 7:38 am
Most places I have been there has been no concentrated team building exercises. Most seems to have been checklist items for the manager to have done for their annual...
August 7, 2015 at 8:30 am
As someone above me said: this is why I keep coming back to SSC!
July 28, 2015 at 2:52 pm
I don't think you should need a CS or IT or whatever they call them these days to be a programmer. Some years back I worked on a huge...
July 1, 2015 at 10:15 am
In the past, I was asked to provide access to my divisions data to SalesForce consultants. We handled 3rd party data, so we did not own it. I...
April 10, 2015 at 8:14 am
A man too soon gone 🙁
I don't even know how many times I have read the entire trilogy. And his other works! The two Dirk Gently books are...
April 6, 2015 at 2:38 pm
JCSQL,
I have not seen that happen myself in the years of using it, but I have to admit I do not think I ever used it for anything quite...
March 10, 2015 at 12:59 pm
My last letter announcing my decision to leave had the following subject line:
"Sorry, no more cookies"
And then the announcement I had decided to leave. I think people where more...
December 29, 2014 at 8:24 am
Time to convert and regression test has been my main obstacles ever since 6.0.
So far I have tried to do most upgrades of SQL to coincide with scheduled upgrades to...
September 19, 2014 at 9:25 am
I started my career as an underwriter in an insurance company, with the side job of maintaining the Access 2.0 database (with a VB front end). After about 6...
July 18, 2014 at 11:46 am
djackson 22568 (6/10/2014)
Anders Pedersen (6/10/2014)
I kept receiving a paycheck throughout the 2008-20111 dark days.
That was a long time to work at a bad job. 🙂 I...
June 10, 2014 at 2:24 pm
Sometimes it can be a very frustrating job being a DBA though (as can most jobs), as (I think) webrunner alluded to earlier, a lot of my grumpiness in the...
June 10, 2014 at 1:14 pm
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