So how does one know that the person they are inteviewing or meeting is a "humble genius" rather than an "overbearing rock star?"

I would agree that I don't need an egotistical developer on the team. However, that is different than a great developer. A truly great developer does several things that an...

MattW2010 (7/9/2010)

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I think this script will be extremely useful, but are you sure it works? I have AdventureWorks running on a SQL 2008 box, and I copied and pasted...

Definitely useful!

First table I tried was in a non-default schema and the script didn't like that. I'll see if I can add a second parameter for schema. Also, if the...

In addition to the technical costs, there can be a legal risk (cost) with retaining certain types of data. My company has taken a stance on certain data being purged...

Our company forces all passwords to rotate every 30 days with a reminder 2 weeks in advance. Personally, I don't like to have to change roughly 10 passwords every 30...

My observations of this thread seem to be that the idea of disaster recovery (backup onsite, online, offiste) is highly supported and in many cases, multiple strategies exist to protect...

Looking for an external hard drive this weekend I ran across a home product line called IOSafe. For about $215-$400 for 0.5-1.5 TB they offer a fire proof, water proof...

I would be hesitant to use RAID without a solid backup strategy as well. If you have a drive failure, you may have a hard time finding a single replacement...

It's very clear that chairs are a very personal choice for most of us. It would be great if companies would recognize that the ergonomics and asthetics are not the...

At my last company, I used chairs as a recruitment/retention tool. I gave each new employee up to $100 reimbursement to go purchase the chair that they preferred and submit...

I would agree that keeping the trigger as light as possible is in the best interest of the database. We do not use CLR triggers and use T-SQL triggers sparingly...