Sometimes there isn't a choice.  With the Oracle/PeopleSoft products case sensitivity is mandatory.

In this era of Sarbanes-Oxley, coming clean (informing management) is huge since the spirit of SOX is not sweeping things under the covers but making deficiencies known as well as the...

I can't speak to the status flags, but I have to wonder what is going on with Cluster Services.  What I  have seen at my present employer is that Cluster...

I blame the practice on Access database users. Access allows this practice and then if the Access database has to be moved to SQL Server, those tasked with the...

Thanks for the feedback.

Improving performance is a broad topic.

Based a recent MS workshop I attended, they would tell you to investigate memory, IO, then CPU, in that order if you have issues. ...

I enjoyed the test even though I didn't pass.

re: DBA's lazy...

At every place that I have ever worked, it has been the users whose data resides in that SQL Server database that tend to drive what is...

I would buy the book.

I think the certification demosntrates motivation and certainly doesn't hurt. Experience will be very important. I think the suggestion of getting one's foot in the door, getting to...

You are in the unique position of helping write your own job description. I think that you could take snippets from each responder to build a complete picture of...