The point goes back to the start of the discussion, most people would not do anything unethical personally but would we stand up for something that happens when we are...

I am somebody who championed the underdog for a very very long period of time. One question i ask myself always - whom am I trying to save and is...

There are many situations with different areas of gray on this. I have had experience with two. One company I was a DBA in - they were running around 600...

Yes definitely a different id is a great idea. Some simple things we have done in our environment also is to set desktop to a bright neon red so that...

There are mistakes that are unforgivable by corporate standards regardless of whether they are intentional or not. For exampel where i work some of our servers are SOX audited and...

🙂 I enjoyed reading your post thank you, and agree very much with the fact that IT would benefit from a formal structure. It is not mature enough for that...

I think the discussion is going way out of the point. But to clarify this is completely false that education system in India was designed the way this person says....

I agree, a mentor in real world is someone whom you help advance in their career and goals. We have mentors internally in the organisation where i work that supposedly...

I am not looking for people to teach me stuff i can learn from books and articles. More like someone to discuss and bounce ideas off of on a more...

I run a user group and am mentor to lots of people there. It is stressful sometimes but definitely always worth it. What I would like very much is a...

Thank you for the great article. It works for me if I ask it to prompt for login and I give my credentials. But if I use the service account...

I've had my user group lunches and an upcoming saturday sponsored by a vendor. They have done the user group lunches for nearly two years now, never asked for any...

I believe that is a truly legitimate reason..distance factors and time and cost involved in getting there. There are lot of 'not so legitimate' ones that I know of -...

Really don't mean to debate on this...but I've got family commitments too..so do several speakers and people who volunteer their time for all the events we do on weekends, saturdays....

I think we need more people like Steve talking about and promoting user group events and SQL Saturdays. I run a user group and have a SQL Saturday coming up....