Senior DBAs are also mentors. My mentor made me use Query Analyzer and SQL for everything. Which is a good thing, since now I am aware of...

Congratulations Frank. I'll have a single malt (only a heathen calls it scotch).

Dr. Peter Venkman: Generally you don't see that kind of behavior in a major appliance.

Patrick

I'm still wondering about this whole someone else pump your gas thing. Is it unionized? Maybe there are two of them, one to unscrew the cap, the...

Ok, let's not talk about the ingrown English illiteracy. English is a tough language. We could be here for days discussing our linguistic shortcomings.

I'll just stick with...

Hollywood is not about the process, it is about the result. In Hollywood lawyers do create briefs in an afternoon (usually with something alcoholic available, but the lawyer decides that...

I'm here in Texas where they keep claiming everything is A-OK.

Dr. Peter Venkman: Generally you don't see that kind of behavior in a major appliance.

Patrick

I wonder how long CONVERT will be around now that CAST is available. I've heard in other forums that CONVERT will eventually not be around.

Dr. Peter Venkman: Generally you don't...

It's best to set a goal like that - both in the next four months. I studied for both at the same time and took the tests about 14 days...

Frank,

Depends on the client when I go to France. Something about the company actually paying for stuff. It's a bit far to commute.

The French also have é, à, ç,...

Frank,

Laughing. Someone who you vaguely know is an acquaintance. Like the guy down the block or four cubicles over. Sometimes they are nodding acquaintances (which means you could pick him/her...

Frank,

You rarely say "This is an acquaintance." when introducing someone. It means that you don't know them and have only met them a few times at most.

An acquaintance is someone...

WINRar - I've used it for several years for archiving databases. Very handy.

Dr. Peter Venkman: Generally you don't see that kind of behavior in a major appliance.

Patrick

Frank,

Same here. They have a multitude of projects and no App DBA. So I've been doing the job for the past nine months, while being paid as a tech...

And also only give the new account specific rights. Do not give it the same as sa.

On the production servers we only give the web users rights to execute...

Frank - I'm working in a half-DBA (apps), half-documentation writer position. It was all documentation all the time when I started, but after a month I noticed that they were...