Different companies had different policy.  The main thing is you have to control yourself, definitely no X-rated website, gambling website.

For the last three companies I worked for.  The first one...

We both are in the same position but I have more IT experience even not all of them are data warehouse and SQL Server.

In his resume, he graudated in India...

Time off ? 

I work 9 to 10 hours a day.  Then when I go home, I have my 'second' job - a maid, a driver, a cook etc.  Even at...

I don't need help.  I want to marry someone who is rich so I don't have to work.

Steve,

I joined this company 5 months earlier than he did.  I understand if someone works in a company for 20 years, his salary may be less than some new hire....

Did they outsource the applications to some Indian/whatever country company? 

I found out one thing, my old company outsourced the system to an Indian company. They did not do a good...

That is the reason why I need to use sp_executesql.

Unfortunately I am using SQL Server 2000.

I am a data warehouse developer so I am interested in data mining. But in this web site, most of members are DBA (I guess 90%) and SQL developers. It...

When my son was little, I worked 40 hours a week, but when I was on call, I would put more hours depending what went wrong that week.  Now my...

I am a data warehouse developer.  Even most people denied it, but one of the data warehouse expert Sid Adelman considered SQL Server 2000 DTS was an ETL tool.  I...

Thanks all for your response.

I agree knowing the business is very important for developers to develop the system.  However today many companies divide the job into business analysts and developers. ...

Steve,

Pass is for SQL Server DBA, architect and developers, but all you talked about just DBA.  I just went to another conference from TDWI for data warehouse users. ...

I agree that being a contractor has less stress at work.  I don't have to worry about company politices, gossip (usually no one cares about contractor), review, competition except I...

I am a working mother.  In another word, I have two jobs.  I am a SQL Server developer working in a company 10 hours a day (not including 1.5...