gdmilner

I can agree with you more!  If people works at home, pager, phone and email are the only way to communicate.  In my old company the DBA worked at...

"Telecommuting is perfect for a DBA because we understand balance I think better than most other IT jobs. Telecommuting is perfect for a DBA because we understand balance I think...

At least Microsoft is doing something to retain their talented employees.  Some big company does not care about employee retention.  They think they are so big that they find always find...

Am I missing something here?  In Bill Gates Message, he was not just talking about communicating between co-workers.  He was talking about the communicating within the company.  Nowaday data is the...

Building a data warehouse is not just building a couple tables.  It needs data analysis and data modeling. The modeling will help to find the hierarchy of the data.  For example, State -> County->...

I got a compilation of definitions of data warehouse glossary by the experts some time ago.

Business Intelligence - The capability to perform in-depth analysis and possibly data mining, of detailed business...

I just went to TDWI data warehouse conference in Chicago.  It was a wonderful conference talking about data warehouse and BI.  At this point SQL Server BI is behind Oracle,...

I am sorry I put in the wrong name - it was supposed to be Pointer-based joins (not funny join).

It joins tables T1 and T2 by tracing explicit links between...

Just curious, everyone seems to like to work at home.  What will the world look like?

First the company doesn't need to get any office space, saves million of dollars. (Maybe...

I heard about this question when my son was in 3rd grade.  He is in 10th grade now.  The teacher said the question came from Bill Gates.  Bill Gate said...

All of these are good points for working at home.  But I am the one that can never work from home.  I get distracted very easy.  Besides I don't want to spend 24...

I used dynamic property in my DTS Package.  The connection server that used to get the data was in the dynamic property and passed thru as a parameter in the job...

Nice company benefit and decent salary.

Nice and skillful co-workers.

Challenging works.

Steve

I had to disagree with you that 'You can teach tech skills. You can't teach personality.'

Some people are very smart and movtivated, they can learn new technology fast and willing...

Pam - Good point !

I am sure the wages rise in India or any outsourced country !