I suck, I've been a SQL developer/DBA/consultant/.NET developer for 13 years, and have never used merge, cross join, pivot, apply, and rarely used complex CTEs.

I think I've done all that...

We aborted mission on trying to parallel process partitions. We need to be able to query other cubes while processing other cubes during business hours, and unfortuntley limiting the...

Thanks for the reply. We are currently working with a Microsoft Tech support person and have tried a variety of things. Some had no effect, however setting the CoordinatorQueryMaxThreads...

Thanks for the info. We are going to try to use a seperate server as well.

For troubleshooting, we stripped out the majority of our partitions and had the cube...

Any luck on finding a solution? I have this problem when I process a cube, when the cube has data that is partitioned by month. Works fine if...

As I like to say, make your job what you want it to be. I want it to be 40 hours or so, therefore it is. Else I...

Once upon a time, we had some old code that did not account for SQL Injection attacks. And then it happend.

People could not understand why the titles on our...

I had goals, once. But working at a small-medium company(between 2500-5000, about 20 in IT), with no bonuses, no true different level of titles, and no new management positions...

I've been programming for over 10 years...and now I have finally seen it all...I just inhereted an application that was apporved(and in use) for production(developed by a vendor)...one problem...on some...

I'll be honest. I took C. It wasn't very useful. I program in .NET and SQL so much different than C, that there really wasn't any carry...

At my former company we had "Beer Friday" starting at 4PM,(ok 3PM unofficially) every week. It was fun. And typically we stayed a little bit longer on Fridays...

Yes, its dead. Other ways to get into programming or DBA. My wife and I are programmers. She took the punishing route.

And C was the most terrible class...

Our vendor has a very interesting testing process. They give us their applicatoin, and I, as the customer, have spent about 200 testing their product and found numerous bugs...

Pretty crazy how a DBA or developer can single-handedly cause or prevent a project to fail.(note that I didn't say succeed...always need help to succeed). I could...

Well, kudos to those who are able to be successful at being independant and finding work consistantly.

After thinking of things just now, the only independants I know fall into...