I went to a friends wedding and someone from the wedding party was attempting to run a presentation from a laptop through a projector during the reception. I noticed it...

A cold six pack of St Pauli Girls and a large toasted ham and cheese sub. And a nap.

The dark side of this is they figure out who is likely to leave and fire them before they have the chance to quit:-P!

Instead of wasting time trying to manage...

I'm actually going to work some Monday, it'll be quiet with most everyone else gone. Then I'll relax for the rest of the day; try to remember those who gave...

If the company and the users are happy with the database performance then as far as they are concerned it is working. My company doesn't have a real DBA, only...

I think we tend to stick with what we know, it's easier. In the old days there was not so much new tech to learn, it was easier to stay...

A.S. in Electrical Engineering, B.S. in Education, 20 experience years in military electronics.

Started with a job in help desk and eventually accidentally became network engineer and DBA.

I've found that data entry errors are not hardware/software dependent so much as they are user influenced. My company teached people to use software such as Dragon Dictate and Viavoice...

When I came in Monday morning my main production SQL server was down due to a hardware error. After talking to tech support it was decided the box required a...

Paid training, conferences in Bora Bora (sounds exotic), free virtual world for IT, coffee each morning served by my favorite V.P., big flat screen monitors. IT rules!

Wait...isn't this a humor...

For myself I maintain a list of achievements throughout the year in a Word document, then at review time I edit this and submit to my boss. I found if...

We have one instance on SQL 2000, which we are preparing to upgrade to SQL 2005 and one instance we just migrated to SQL 2008. For us it is dependent...

Brad,

A code of ethics is a nice idea but without a governing body that we all have to join I believe it is entirely unenforceable. Also most of us...

I've taught technical and non-technical courses, both computer-based and lecture-based and I find computers are fine for reinforcing specific ideas, or for research, but for most learners other forms of...

I'd like to control my quick reation to things. I tend to be judgemental and quick to respond, sometimes without thinking things through.

But then again if we were all the...