Having more then a few ways to do something allows folks to do it the way they are most comfortable, using a button, mouse or key combinations fit some minds...

The first question is about intellectual property of the company that wrote the code. Any industrial secret that is inside the code can be seen as non disclosable if the...

Equal under the law and fair to the employees is one of the major challenges of today's IT world. Since we deal with people it is not possible to treat...

Thanks Steve, very good article.

Leadership is key, after years of being in the business I can say that having someone who is going somewhere is much better then trying to...

We are supporting both 2000 and 2005 in production. It would be nice to have a sp5 to wrap 2000 up before support closes. And 2005 sp3 should be automatic....

The move to 2008 would be first of all getting platform up to see what is working, and then decide what parts of the tools set with SQL Server 2008...

Rules exist for reasons, and best practices are really the best at that time. However things change over the weeks and years and what was once best is no longer...

Microsoft i s no t alone in this. many of the companies would like to get more dollars and have a better bottom line. But how is the best way...

Reading for me is to get as far away from IT as possible but still read about something interesting. Currently reading The Civil War: A Narrative by Shelby Foote and...

Steve, I also love the topic and am glad to...

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Recently I spoke with one of the Oracle Developers I know and asked him why are Oracle people so sold out to the product and act as if they will...

First of all this is a wonderful topic. We have identified logic and concerns from three sides of the data. The logical model, the physical model and the actual interface...

Thanks for offering this as a topic.

I have a new workstation on order, servers to work with that I do not have to administer only use, SA on the...

Steve,

I have been working in a few of the subs and sql itself. With the introduction of the new pieces and part you are correct the DBA role is...