Oh, this job is great :-D. It's a similar "style" of job as my old one, in that I'm troubleshooting a third-party vendor's software, but the people here are...

Ugh, this rings far too true at present. The company I work for currently uses third-party software, and after examining the system, I've found that its search procedures are...

At the place I'm working at now, vacations are a very foreign concept to me :-P. I'm pretty much not allowed to take vacations, not because the workload is...

Haha, it's a vendor-based solution :-D. The company I'll be working for shortly is using it for its core operations, and it gets the job done well enough. ...

Aha, I knew there had to be some way to abolish the loop :w00t:. I'm offsite from where the procedure needs to be run, but next week I'll be...

Just thought I'd update this... After tossing out some more applications to places that were a bit out of reach experience-wise, I've managed to get a contracting job with...

Hm, I see. That certainly would make things seem quite a bit less grim overall; to be honest, I was a bit worried that such a job would take...

Hm, that's unusual. From what I can tell, syscurconfigs refers to a compatibility view used for backwards compatibility with SQL Server 2000 (source: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms177502.aspx). Seems as though...

Hello there! I believe the solution to your problem should be in the External Data tab; use the ODBC Database option, just a bit over from the Linked Table...

Gary Varga (2/4/2013)

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I tend to find the biggest problem is when they do not accept the limitations of the situation. Particularly when you have highlighted the pertenant one(s) as issues...

No kidding. I saw the SQL-related bits and figured the salary was acceptable enough, then I caught the rest of it... Ack. Amusingly, there's another corporation nearby...

Haha, completely unrealistic job expectations are kinda commonplace around where I am currently. For example, this one turned up in my job search results today...

JOB DUTIES:

Support mission critical...

I'd say that, this year, my main DR plans would be teaching the next-most-technically-competent person here (who isn't a programmer, unfortunately) about basic DR principles. I might not be...

Goal #1 for me is to find new employment. I think I've done as much as I can for the company here; my presence is literally handled entirely through...

Hm. Table definition details aside, that query looks correct with the exception of the JOINs in your FROM clause:

FROM Department

INNER JOIN Personal

INNER JOIN Person ON Personal.PersonID = Person.ID

INNER...