Excellent post, thank you!

A couple years ago I had the choice of paying $3k and waiting 3-4 months for a body shop to fix the front end of the vehicle...

Excellent post and suggestion, thank you!

Louis, thank you for the excellent post. It was a great way to start off a Monday morning. It is fun to hear about someone else who started with a...

“There is an urgent message in the bathroom at Redgate…”

1. Problems with dropping packets? Try fiber...for your internet.
2. That food truck food caused a critical fault resulting in a stack...

Early in my career I followed Mr. Branson's advice without ever having heard that quote and it worked well for me. I have an amazing wife that had more faith...

Really it depends on what the organization, or your management, has a tolerance for. I have been hired on to fix messes but then had the reins pulled back hard...

Excellent post! It was informative and entertaining. Thank you!

This was a great post and help! So many times I wish I'd had this in the past. Well done and thank you!

Was there ever any resolution or final word on this? I am facing the exact same issue it seems and this is the only post I have found that...

Over the course of 11 years and 3 jobs I have never worked for an employer that had an ERD nor thought it important enough to create nor maintain one.

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1. DV - Development for everyone to mess with; CI enabled

2. QA - Quality Assurance; Internal testing for initial testing; nightly CI

3. UA - User Acceptance; final regression testing and...

I almost shouted an audible "AMEN!" when I read today's editorial.

I have found the most difficult part of making educated guesses is getting enough information to even start[/b] with.

Requester: We...

+1 for including a log reader tool in SQL Server!

Only one; a vendor t-shirt from last year's PASS Summit. But maybe that's because I didn't swag shop as much as I could have the first couple days .

This is after the fact since the OP has already made a decision, but I wanted to add my two bits.

I have been trying to fill a couple DBA positions...