As data professionals, we don't necessarily need all that knowledge, but we do need to communicate with those individuals that may have the knowledge and work closely with them to...

And Hakim, I must say that you are doing a good job of responding to the criticism that came out of this post.

j_e_o (8/6/2012)

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In most cases, the author comes away from the review with their ego intact and their head held high because we are all focused on quality and are willing...

IowaTechBear (8/2/2012)[hr Just as a good question to ask about a developer, "What would happen if xxxxx were to be run over by an ice cream truck? (I don't know...

cksid (7/30/2012)

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I was one of those horrible supervisors. Twenty years ago out of college, I was a manager of a Domino's Pizza and I was horrible to my employees....

GSquared (7/25/2012)I used to work at a company where your review had to include scores from 1-10 on various aspects of your job duties. Wasn't ranked against others directly,...

Derek,

I loved the way you used a problem you ran into as an opportunity to educate the rest of us.

Also, in regards to e-mailing the apology, I've found that most...

david.wright-948385 (7/11/2012)

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But there is another side to this coin: when someone else is wrong, we need to treat that in a helpful light too. It's so much easier to...

Duh, I knew that. Guess my brain...

Peter H, thanks for the SQL.

One thing I was wondering about is why you have the "order by 1" phrase.

davoscollective,

Thanks very much. This gives me some excellent stats.

I'm still running into the problem that if I have the same report with multiple subscriptions (due to different parameters), I...

Just wanted to say thanks once again for all of the answers. It's been enlightening and fun reading. 🙂

Thanks to all who replied for satisfying my curiosity. I have a lot to learn and I truly appreciate those who take the time to help.

And, by the way, I forgot to say that I am very grateful.

I agree with the 'pay it forward' concept and have done that with my knowledge in the past....

I'm moving from doing 30 years of VMS/COBOL programming into the world of Windows. Mostly working on SQL Server and Report Builder right now. I want to eventually...