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  • RE: Hunting Developers

    Miles Neale (2/8/2013)

    Over the years we were reformed, changed, we "matured".

    I totally understand, Miles. That's called growing up. There's nothing wrong with passion, and I don't think that...

  • RE: Dealing with Supervision

    Gary Varga (2/8/2013)One chap responded said that he wanted to be a manager and when asked of what he said that it didn't matter.

    Gary,

    Like I said before, it's about control....

  • RE: Hunting Developers

    "They're productive, but it's boring. Sounds are muted, there's no animation from the employees, it just seems like it could be an accounting firm as much as it could be...

  • RE: Dealing with Supervision

    That is a very typical repsonse from a micromanager. As I said before, they don't tend to like people to know that they don't have their priorities in order, so...

  • RE: DBA Hypochondria

    ""Doctor, come quickly! Buffer Cache Hit Ratio is way down; Disk Queue Length is through the roof, Page Life Expectancy has dipped below the magic '300'. "

    These are all Performance...

  • RE: Data Journalism

    Steve Jones - SSC Editor (2/6/2013)


    but by the same token I think users sometimes don't understand the data we see.

    good to keep both things in perspective.

    I think there is...

  • RE: Dealing with Supervision

    Alex Gay (2/6/2013)


    I've had managers ask for "Everything, Now" in the past. I keep a written list of all my tasks, and if it gets too much just ask...

  • RE: Dealing with Supervision

    I read this piece on micro-managers once and always thought that it was spot on. Read on:

    "A micromanager is one of the most frustrating and demoralizing forces in the workplace....

  • RE: The Knowledge Graph

    I think Google is reading way too much of their own press clippings and it is going to their heads. 😀

  • RE: Still 32

    We have one legacy 32-Bit SQL box. The rest are all 64-Bit installs. It's our standard install simply because 64-bit architecture blows right past the 3 GB barrier and can...

  • RE: Geeky Oscars

    Argo was one of the better "edge of your seat films" I have seen in a while. It wasn't a big box office draw but man was it a good...

  • RE: Building Better Software

    Scenario One: Plane crashes due to human error.

    Scenario Two: Plane crashes due to computer software error.

    Personally, if I were on that plane, it wouldn't really concern me what...

  • RE: Cramming for Interviews

    majorbloodnock (1/21/2013)[/b

    If your company is happy with your hiring decisions, then keep doing it the way you do. However, unless you experience a far higher staff turnover than your competitors,...

  • RE: Encryption Not Restriction

    I am not sure that I would entrust the safekeeping and storage of the only thing that can decrypt my production databases in case of emergency, to my end-user community....

  • RE: The Optimists

    I don't have a problem with flexibility/changes per say. However, I do tend to have a problem with people/users who can't seem to make up their mind about what they...

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