As Jack of all Trades, I prefer all genres of music at the console, not just rock.

Man in the Cubical (Alice in Chains)

Welcome to TSQL (Brian Burns)

You Can't Take the...

Hotel? Travel?

I think being allowed to be unchained from the desk at work would be a good start...

signed,

Data Slave #42

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If you deal with GIS, mapping or geocoding you will be running into more spatial terms. More applications are incorporating these features, so it's not a bad thing to know...

There's reasons there are contracts in business. People want more than they are willing to pay for and they think software is the land of magic, not the land of...

The people best qualified to pass verdict on T-SQL, or any other tool, are the people for whose use it was designed. The right to debate and argue with developers...

We encrypt to keep clients from shooting themselves in the foot and causing support nightmares. (Which in some determined cases they still manage to do!)

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What’s amazing to me is how often I feel that I'm babysitting someone on this site in trying to lead them to an answer. I feel like I'm trying to...

I have more books in my office than the rest of the development and data team combined. :Whistling:

What annoys me is the simple questions from coworkers that can be looked...

I'm not sure that the Kindle is that great of a eBook reader. With the restrictions put on it by Amazon, the cost of the hardware, the...

I have a secret...

I'm ashamed to say that I'm one of the few people at my office that has a bookshelf with domain related books occupying the space. Maybe that's due to the...

I wonder, especially as more and more developers leave Microsoft over the years, would someone just try to implement a core SQL Server. If the development time wasn't too long,...

The Express version is designed by Microsoft to fill this hole, where a solid RDBMS engine is required but not all the extra features. I guess encouraging the use of...

I saw an article earlier this year that talked about how the economic downturn might lead to less software purchases this year. It also mentioned that some software companies might...

Brandie,

I've been on both sides of the fence as a system administrator and now as someone that works for a vendor. Many times I'm the person that ends up working...