I grew up in Orlando, so I drove fake submarines at Disney World (that 20K Leagues ride is long gone).  Quickly became an IT "consultant" way before getting my UF...

37 years in the IT back into business (but *did* get an early Comp. Sci. degree in 1981) and if I had go back into management [shudder] I would demand...

Accuracy? schamaracy. I have -- more than once -- found bugs in BI ETL Stored Procedures that were double (or triple) counting results, fixed the bugs, reloaded the historical...

I third that emotion. Thanks for sharing.

Re: P0rn.

It's correct. It's a famous judicial line.

I agree. The numerous grammar errors mar an otherwise excellent article.

what ender said! +1

I *have* told young kids to stay away from technology jobs in the 21st century, including my 2 recent college graduated children. I tell them to do what you...

As DBA's, you can't be the party of "No!". If you have to say "No", which is often, then say "Not exactly, but how about we do it like...

Titles are meaningless, particularly in IT. I've had DBA titles where I never performed a backup/restore and I've had Developer and Architect titles where I spent way too much...

Free book? Free as in Beer? 😎 OK, here's some code:

SELECT [TABLE_SCHEMA]

,[TABLE_NAME]

,[TABLE_TYPE]

,ROW_NUMBER() OVER (...

Wow, then I guess we have the "ideal"! Seriously, if you architect things properly then DB changes can and should go out way ahead of the apps. DBAs...

2 jobs ago ... one of the most "frustrating" SQL DBAs that my deparment hired had all of Microsoft's DBA certifications. But his SQL coding was very suspect. ...

I hate to say this, but with FU $$ I would surely stop reading SQLServerCentral.com 😎