If you want to store the answer to the question, you are not building a datawarehouse. You are building a database that has question, respondent and answers. They...

Congratulations. It is a very good informative SQL Server website.

I worked for three companies that did not have any SQL Server DBA. So all the developers had to wear the DBA hat.

However since all these companies...

I am a developer using both Oracle and SQL Server. Even though they are relational database, it is very different to write PL/SQL and T-SQL. The SQL syntax...

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I agree with blandry. One of my co-worker refuses to share information and it is considered to be his job security. The team dynamic is really affected by...

I work for the regional transit company heavily depends on state funding and the state budget just cut 17% of funding to my company. Should I be worried? ...

The article describes an ideal IT department which I personally never see in my career life (maybe it is just me.) I used to work for a company which...

The most common reporting tool I see in many companies is Crystal report. I also used Active Report.Net and Actuate report.

I absolutely agree that people are more important than working space. I used to sit in a conference room with 5 other people, I did not have much space...

DBA is different from SQL Developer and I think being a developer, industrial experience is very important. I used to work with people coming out of college without any...

I agree that it is essential that a programmer need to keep up with the technical skills. However after in this business over 20 years, I begin to ask...

Offshore outsourcing is a terrible idea until you can have someone there to supervise those 'kindergarten developers'.

Even companies outsource their call centers to India bring back their customer service because...

Exercise - I just can't bring myself to do any exercise and my doctor already warns me about that.

But after a whole day's work, I just don't want to go...

I see the shift of a traditional DBA role into DBA/Developer role in most companies especially medium and small size companies.