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  • RE: Making Guesses

    For person-time (not disk space or bandwidth or other fun techie items) that standard in project management for the last 30 years has been "take the estimates you get and...

  • RE: Byte Me: Stranger Than Fiction

    LMOTBC (laughing myself off the ball chair)

    Good thing I work from home; I broke out in very loud laughter. I have yet to experience the blue screen of...

  • RE: Dig Out the Root Cause

    Gail Wanabee (4/28/2015)


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    So many companies and CIO's I've worked for had a "good enough" is good enough attitude that permeated their I.T. culture. Nobody even cared about best practices...

  • RE: Dig Out the Root Cause

    Iwas Bornready (4/28/2015)


    Though there is truth in what you say, there is also truth in that "good enough" has to exist or the company you are working for goes out...

  • RE: BULK INSERT first row

    Stewart "Arturius" Campbell (4/7/2015)


    Koen Verbeeck (4/7/2015)


    Rune Bivrin (4/7/2015)


    I was very torn between "3" and "Not supported". Based on the following in the cited documentation, I kind of felt both were...

  • RE: One Rule, Umpteen Constraints

    David.Poole (3/31/2015)

    I feel that what is needed is a schema version aware rule where there is an option to validate the existing data against an updated rule or to accept...

  • RE: Where Do You End Up as a DBA?

    They end up on the "DBA TEAM". Or chasing them. 😀

  • RE: Your Tools

    There are so many scenarios people work under that what works for one may be untenable for another. My company / team recently had conversations about not using...

  • RE: Time for Learning

    Another reason working with others can help, beyond just the "peer pressure", is because it makes it more fun! (For some of us, anyway.) It's nice to...

  • RE: A Little Empathy

    First, I want to thank Steve for these lovely little tidbits about interacting with others. It's a much bigger part of the job than many realize. This one...

  • RE: What Counts for a DBA: Empathy

    What I find interesting in this conversation thread is that no one things the "manager" is part of the team. Where I work, they are considered part of the...

  • RE: Kitchen Culture

    Now I'm wondering if there's any actual data out in the world that would allow us to look for a correlation... Can't say I've seen one.

    I've never worked anywhere...

  • RE: Citizen Programmers

    I agree the issue of citizen programmers is not going away - there are needs that are not being met, so they will pursue solutions that allow them to do...

  • RE: Create a stored procedure

    Even with COLUMN instead of COLUMNS, this was a good question - just look at the spread of percentages on each of the five answers.

    Hoping to see more...

  • RE: Handling Inconvenient Requests

    As with so many things in our profession, "it depends"!

    1. Is there documentation showing them how to do <the thing> and did they read is is always my first...

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