Juggling time is my pain point and all the facets of life involved. Hard to perform what I would call a good job in all areas of life at...

Great thoughts Steve. Yet another caveat to potential outsourcing. Having hosted various platforms for web hosting, I have experienced the sudden death of some existing features that was...

Cade Roux (12/3/2008)

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To start with, it wasn't outsourcing. It was a wholly owned subsidiary. There was no profit being recognized by another company. I had an oustanding...

And you get even when you give, as it polishes oneself. In fact, I'd say you get far more from giving...

Thank you for your efforts here Jeff. An article of this level takes hours to prepare, and the effort shows. Although I am an Analysis Server and Report...

Cade Roux (12/3/2008)

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When outsourcing, ... you trade business knowledge and loyalty to the success of your business for specialized expertise and fungibility. Every dollar you spend outsourcing is a...

Steve Jones - Editor (12/2/2008)

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Interesting responses, especially Mia's. I do think that it is easier for the average DBA to manage more instances, but it seems instances grow, and grow,...

Hilarious! Members of my extended family...

Andrew Peterson (12/1/2008)

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From an architecture approach at the database level, typically you created the db schema based on the business objectives. Now, with the database object abstraction tools, developers...

I think just as much thanks should go to those who post questions as those who answer them. If nobody asked questions, we'd not learn anything. As an...

Hope everyone had a grand Thanksgiving holiday and weekend in the U.S.

I'd like to express thanks and gratitude to all those world-wide who contribute to helping others with their experiences,...

Very nice article! It runs where the tires meet the road with specifics that even the newest to the product can eventually digest. This is good list to...

Michael Valentine Jones (11/20/2008)

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How about telling them the guy who was keeping the records of the backup tapes left years ago, was never replaced, and you don’t have any idea...

Phil Factor (11/20/2008)

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What I didn't say in the editorial was that the strategy that put them all on the run was to bombard them with great quantities of materials,...

jpowers (11/14/2008)

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Anonymous post #1:

Hello Steve,

Let’s not forget that as “Knowledge Workers” – we carry our brains around (most of us anyways) 24-7.

That means that, when we are commuting,...