As Jonathan Kehayias likes to calls it, i was an "Accidental DBA". I started the role years ago part-time filling a void for someone who left, and it quickly grew...

John Hanrahan (2/27/2013)

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David,

I like your logic. Though I am pretty sure we did not make a profit on GM. AIG though we did well. All I can...

chuckboycejr (2/27/2013)

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It's conventional wisdom and an accepted practice at a lot of shops that to install a Microsoft product before SP1 is foolish for production. Anyone who installs an...

DavidBrown-731687 (2/26/2013)

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If you say, "Well that's just the way things are," then they have won. I'm not ready to give up that fight quite yet. And neither should...

DavidBrown-731687 (2/26/2013)

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You can claim that consumers themselves are to blame for being fooled, but if we are honest, we have to admit that consumers are not always told the truth,...

You might resent it, but the fact is most affluent people are viewed by everyone else as having deeper pockets. So, they tend to be a target for stuff...

pdanes (2/22/2013)

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It's not obsolete if it still does the job it was designed to do. I've written my share of FORTRAN, RPG, COBOL and who knows what else over the...

David.Poole (2/25/2013)

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Oracle DBAs tend to be at the upper end of the DBA scale in much the same way as C/C++ programmers tend to be at the higher end of...

Gary Varga (2/22/2013)

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Surely some of the responsibility is on the author's own integrity. After all suggesting that someone focusses on the positives and leaves out the less positives (or...

He will fix it as soon as he gets backs from picking up after his horses.:-D

I have read so many articles in the past on writing a great resume and not one of them, and I do mean not one of them, mentions anything about...

I think a bit of perspective is due here. Try not to take life too seriously guys, or let stuff like this rent too much space in your head. Bottom...

GilaMonster (11/8/2008)

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Triggers have uses, but I'm not sure that business logic is a good one.

For me, auditing is the main use. In 2008 Change data capture and change data tracking...

djackson 22568 (2/18/2013)

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Part of the issue here is that companies are always trying to do more with less. Increasing the profit margin by reducing staff can only go so...

Gary Varga (2/18/2013)

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TravisDBA (2/18/2013)

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You can't reallistically farm out long-term IT technical support to outside contractors without it costing a bunch of money the government claims it doesn't have nowadays. IT...