george sibbald (1/18/2013)

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I don't think they have to be nice either and DBAs should certainly never be pushovers, but they have to be team players, approachable and helpful whilst...

majorbloodnock (1/18/2013)

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. Skills can be taught, but only if the person has basic ability. Obviously, taking someone on who has potential and then teaching them costs money and takes time....

There is a flip side...

D.Oc (1/17/2013)

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I use Keepass for storing my passwords, it is only way to remember them all.

For example, password for my Gmail acc. is 56 characters long and I'm changing it...

lewandot (1/17/2013)

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I don't care if they hire someone who crammed for the interview, came up through the ranks or have been a DBA for 20 years. I wish managers...

jimbobmcgee (1/16/2013)

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tl;dr - I can't see the point in Service Broker; it doesn't appear to do what it says on the tin and is too convoluted to use...

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On the surface,...

Cramming knowledge for an interview to impress a prospective employer is kind of like stuffing toilet paper into your pants to impress a girl. You are advertising what you don't...

If your password to anything on a computer is your name or is "password" then you deserve to be hacked IMHO. I mean this is kind of a no brainer.:-D

Very good point Steve! Our security team just stopped the MS13-007 patch (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2769327) here from going onto all of our servers when it was discovered through a website...

I'm not sure that "lower level description" was really necessary to get your point across...

Steve Jones - SSC Editor (1/8/2013)

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Government databases are getting opened, and while I agree they ought to design some OLAP type system from the ground up, because of time and...

In today's computerized world, we have about as much privacy as a goldfish in a bowl. You can find out alot more than you would ever think or need, on...

I'm not sure that posting a notice like that would get your laptop back at all, or even if so, how much big $$$$$$ the person(s) would try to hold...

Jeff Moden (1/6/2013)

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What I've found is that a DBA is usually the voice-of-one against many and that the DBA is usually the only one with a mind out for silly...

Backups are only half the story. The real important part of DR is how fast can you get the databases back to point in time and operational once you have...