For me, winning is being a man of integrity irrespective of whether anyone sees or I get the job or I get the promotion.  To lie, cheat, steal, fudge, cover...

Great job; keep up the good work.  I like the following:

    Editorials

    Member-of-the-month (though I don't pay attention to it; it's important)

    Second Look

I agree that the look and feel...

I agree. 

I was self-employed for 14 years, never keeping careful track of my time.  I discovered when I became an employee that in my self-employment days I'd only been working...

I agree wholeheartedly with your editiorial, Steve.  Our company bought Software Assurance with SQL2000, and never got to use it because SQL2005 came out years later.  Microsoft did only what...

I have about 4 standard trigger templates for tables that disallows updates and/or deletes; I use them all the time on every table that has data that should not change once it...

My approach, as dba & data architect for a small paper mill, is to build a whole new SQL2005 box as soon as possible; there are a lot of features that...