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  • RE: The Job Posting - Do I really have to be the SQL God?

    Craig Farrell (4/22/2011)


    James Stover (4/21/2011)


    Sometimes in large organizations - particularly government - you will see jobs advertised with very specific skills and experience. I've never been able to prove this,...

  • RE: Saying Thank You

    Even when I have a meltdown with customer service (seems to happen with my ISP with regularity), I always say: "I appreciate your help". Though, if I have to keep...

  • RE: The Job Posting - Do I really have to be the SQL God?

    Sometimes in large organizations - particularly government - you will see jobs advertised with very specific skills and experience. I've never been able to prove this, but I am almost...

  • RE: Careful Blogging

    Back in the "old days", to get published in a professional journal you had to go through a rigorous peer review process. Now days, any fool can throw up some...

  • RE: The Job Posting - Do I really have to be the SQL God?

    Fal (4/18/2011)


    alen teplitsky (4/18/2011)


    a lot of the listings are fake and are just head hunters looking for resumes for their database

    Ah, now there's something I've also noticed: the same...

  • RE: The DBA of the Future

    Ramkumar (LivingForSQLServer) (4/17/2011)


    here is my thoughts:

    1.Performance front:

    We can expect 256 GB RAM and 100 TB better version of SSD, 4 times faster processors and may be consistant 100 MBPS wireless...

  • RE: The Job Posting - Do I really have to be the SQL God?

    I always like the ones that say something like "expert skills in Oracle and SQL Server". So, basically you want 20 years of combined experience on two major platforms all...

  • RE: The DBA of the Future

    Let's not forget the cloud. Being able to interface between the private and public cloud will certainly be a desired skill.

  • RE: The Value of Data

    Jeff Langdon (4/4/2011)


    Social Networking will keep the NYT and others trying this business model from succeeding. People in the Middle East and Japan are not going to the NYT...

  • RE: The Chance of Failure

    Fortunately the Cloud will save us from failure. Because we know how bullet-proof telecom infrastructure is. It never fails...except when it storms, or during peak solar activity, or when a...

  • RE: If you could stop working tomorrow, would you still do SQL?

    No. I would study to be a pilot. Then buy a plane and fly myself around the world. Forget sailing!

  • RE: Getting Up To Speed on SQL Server Denali

    I've spent '00:00:00.0000000' hours evaluating Denali. I'm still wrapping my head around SQL 2008 R2. My guess is that it will be well into 2012 before looking at Denali (i.e....

  • RE: What Sarbanes-Oxley Won't Do

    SOX is very much like airport security. It's a burden on the innocent, a deterrent for the uncommitted, and useless against the determined. With each new layer of government intervention...

  • RE: OldSQL

    With older software, you also have to consider the existing skills base to support it. It's relatively easy to find a DBA who knows v2005, maybe a bit harder to...

  • RE: I lied, now what?

    Wouldn't it be easier to hire the right person in the first place?....Sorry to disagree, but the people doing the hiring and the hiring process needs to change.

    Agreed. But anyway,...

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