The compounding of the incentives sounds really great but most companies will have an upper limit to a salary so you might have a difficult time achieving the 'full 50%...

wallah!???

I think you mean voilà

A wallah is a servant...

I have to agree about jaw dropping over 16 gigs in a laptop..

Most laptops have a max of 8 GB.

That must have been quite a laptop to start with!

Thank you rjohal-500813 and ta.bu.shi.da.yu.

As an university employee at a hospital in Canada, I too would be fired and the provincial privacy office would be asking serious questions about our...

What surprises me is that SQL ServerCentral does not have a vetting process to prevent these problems.

I ask because posting personal information on a public website would go against anything that a DBA learns.

Even if it is data from India, this should have raised a lot...

Just to ask a foolish question, but is that real data?

Are those real names and birthdates?

Where is your spell check when you really need it?

dinosar -> dinosaur

Don't many companies, including MS, license by user requests even if they go through one unique user?

EG: you many have 1000 users accessing SQL Server through one account.

Have you tried userfriendly.org ?

http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons

It is a quite humorous tech comic strip but it is best to read it regularly.

If this article is supposed to be for newbies, I think more narrative is needed for the explanation "Observe the query and output carefully...and then see if you can get...