No one I know of "enjoys" walking into a firestorm. That said though, I have learned an enormous amount by doing so. Both, in further developing my overall skill set...

The worst boss I had went to jail and I am still proud today to say I helped put him there. 😀

Yes, and it holds all the DBA stuff we need to do and house on a daily basis. Ours is called "DBA_MetaData". At the last place i worked it was...

Core6430 (7/30/2012)

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The worst bosses I've had (a good boss is extremely rare), were promoted because they talked the loudest, and bragged the hardest, and took credit for things that weren't...

Good point Steve , it is query memory, and they are not the...

jshahan (7/25/2012)

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The last 10 years of my work life have been far and away the most rewarding and the last three in particular have been almost too good to be...

"I'm not sure how I'd want this to work on my SQL Servers. After all, any load I placed on them wouldn't necessarily just occupy CPU. It would also impact...

My dream job??? How about getting paid to sleep...But seriously, nowadays with the economy in the tank, a dream job is just having one. As of June 2012 (12.7 million...

:w00t:There are good things about smaller companies and not so good. It just depends on what you want out of the job. For example, here are some things below that...

jbnv (7/24/2012)

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James Stover (7/24/2012)

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I always try to find out if I am filling a new position or one that someone has vacated. That 's the initial fork in the road...

As long as there are some...

Freddie-304292 (7/23/2012)

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I know it sounds minor, but good cycling facilities is a big one for me nowadays. It's become my main form of exercise and I wouldn't want to...

Well said, I believe that this is tantamount to publishing everyone's salary in the lunchroom, that is how much havoc this causes within a team. But I can understand why...

I have, but some management just lives for that kind of stuff though.:-D

stephen 27828 (7/20/2012)In my opinion, employee evaluation systems to should be an individual thing -- employees are placed in a job that has certain KPIs and expectations. Employees should...