Gary Varga (8/13/2014)

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..... opposed to "we will buy in a very expensive ERP system and customize our whole company around it". The latter tends to force a company to...

I'm not for the Nanny state, over burdensome regulations. If someone wants to get a Darwin award, fine by me.

But where others get affected then I do see the...

RP1966 (7/24/2014)

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In relation to this question I would recommend everyone read at least the first section of 'Thinking, Fast and Slow' by Daniel Kahneman. It goes into great detail...

Worked with a VM consultant who spent a week setting up the VMs proving that MSSQL is supported and stating it was robust on his configuration of MS Windows &...

Not a bad idea.

But how do you protect against an index slowing other queries down on Select specifically and the usual Insert/Delete/Update in general.

I dont actually believe that many understand ERDs. Would like to see a survey on what people do know, and the extent.

Last few companies I have worked at none of...

Minimum skill?

For me I more interested in the aptitude rather than the supposed skill set. If someone is skilled but trigger happy/ slap dash then mistakes will be more...

Some of the SMEs are now using VM snapshots/backups as their backup solution rather than a proper SQLServer backup. Works some of the time... Other places rely on the auto...

Remember when companies were downsizing because a guru said so....

Jeff Moden (3/3/2014)

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SQLRNNR (3/3/2014)

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Yeah...

Showed one supplier what could happen with the SA account. Lets say the junior consultant was indifferent whereas the senior consultant went white, walked outside to have a long conversation...

Blog, linkedIn, Facebook, user groups, networking etc etc.

Reminds me of a manager who was sceptical of people with too much training and seeking qualifications. Their thinking was that how much...

stolbovoy (4/14/2014)

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Yet Another DBA (4/14/2014)

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Vlad-207446 (4/14/2014)

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Hell, I personally know several DBAs (one is my friend and the other person I know through the mutual firend) whos company made a desicion...

Vlad-207446 (4/14/2014)

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Hell, I personally know several DBAs (one is my friend and the other person I know through the mutual firend) whos company made a desicion to go with MySql...

Eric M Russell (4/8/2014)

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I hate to say it, but the only way we're every going to see any industry wide application of standard data security policies is through government regulation...