I have bought some tools on my own, but most of the time, it usually comes down to convincing the employers to purchase the tools. Sometimes it takes some...

As well as the new DATE and TIME types in 2008. Good MSDN blog article on...

GoofyGuy (12/22/2014)

I've been in IT going on 40 years, and I've discovered it's often the 'bad apples' who have the best ideas and insights.

Conformity may bring a sullen peace to...

I used this time last year to create a stored procedure to show me column by column log/audit table changes. So when a user asks when a specific record...

Steve,

My current job has been...

I gauge the success and satisfaction of the programs I work based on the following:

- Have my changes made life easier for the end users of the programs....

All,

A little off topic. A lot of the posts reference a CV instead of a resume. I assume the CV stands for curriculum vitae.

I am...

Jeff Shurak (8/1/2014)

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Gail has written a great article on Simple-talk.

https://www.simple-talk.com/sql/performance/finding-the-causes-of-poor-performance-in-sql-server,-part-1/%5B/quote%5D

Jeff,

Thanks for the point in the right direction. These two articles and the one on deadlocks look...

Please, please make the error/warning messages better and more precise...Nothing worse than something like this:

Msg 8152, Level 16, State 14, Line 1

String or binary data would be truncated.

The statement has...

All,

At my current job and in past jobs, the best method for letting people know what is possible is to venture out of the IT area into the users'...

Ed,

Thanks for the article and thanks for yet another nugget that is well hidden in the "dry" MSDN atricles. This will help me out tremendously when doing data...

Jack Corbett,

Spot on definition of a good manager, especially the third point. Insulation from the political, financial and personality pressures really lets the techs stay focused.

I would add...

All,

You can see this behavior all over the web when doing a search for something. The same exact code will come up in numerous sites without any mention...

Eric M Russell (10/10/2013)

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These arn't stupid people; they're just out of their element and frustrated by what they perceive as cryptic advice provided by techie geeks. They're neither a...

Luis,

Yes, I already have the splitter and comparisons working...