Amen to that.

@matt-2: To further your point, my experience has been that many employers focus on "years of XXXX" instead of realizing that many of us will get pulled off,...

That is a really good point. The shotgun approach...

Will try it out. Thanks, Grant.

Grant, in our particular situation, all the new values for this clustered date column are the same for each batch, and are always greater than the previous batch. If I'm...

Just the reassurance I needed. Thanks, Earl!

I've been fortunate to be on the opposite side of some repliers here; I typically trounce BrainBench and other so-called "technical aptitude" tests (despite being a mediocre test taker overall)....

Following...

Yes, it is and a lot of great comments. Thanks for posting these kinds of inter-subject topics for this very active community.

I'd follow a bit on what Jamie said: consistency tends to breed quality.

And, as IceDread noted, we need to factor in the time dimension; one can have both consistency and...

Miles Neale (5/15/2008)

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Tin Pin - I recently had major heart surgery and had a few months of recovery. Meds were plentiful and the old brain had a few very hard...

That's why this topic was posted as an editorial, and not as an article 😀 My...

Julie Breutzmann (5/15/2008)

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I agree that a high percentage of the population here has been involved in music at some point in their lives. But I believe that many of the...

John Reid (5/15/2008)

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I would strongly urge anyone interested in pursuing this subject further to read the book "This is your brain on music" by musician-turned-scientist Daniel Levitin (http://www.yourbrainonmusic.com/). Although...

Brian Kukowski (5/15/2008)

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A great book that talks about this topic is "Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid" by Douglas Hofstadter. It's been about a dozen years since...