4 weeks? Wow, i took an extra day and 4 days off seemed great this time, although must say coming back in to work seems rather nice too, coz i...

Greg Low, the MS regional director for Australia is also Director of PASS User Groups. Greg has even authored a book on how to grow and develop user group community...

The non PASS user groups that I know of are part of Culiminis so might be worth while asking someone there.

Some are not named SQL user group, they call...

Thank you Brad for the much needed publicity. I have been running the user group where I live for 7 years now and things are looking much better past couple...

I was a developer who turned DBA by accident 14 years ago (my boss had a drink too many and dropped a critical database and was fired) and have been...

I would say know the customer/employer's limitations in addition to my own limitations. In other words using one's intuition to figure out what the customer/employer needs, what is his tendency...

To me, it is like the saying 'Trust in God but lock your car'. By all means do your very best but do keep an eye on how it is...

Sing4you, which state do you work for??? 🙂 I worked for the state down south here and I wanted to get out in 3 months, it was so bad -...

Hi Cherie, I do agree that no degree can substitute hard core experience but on the other hand there are degrees that teach technical basics, not just management basics and...

Where I work we use Guardiam on SOX audited applications. It does a pretty neat job although it is an expensive tool. I wonder how many people realized the value...

Want to say two things that do not seem very correct. One there are degree programs that have Database credits, there is not a program that is exclusively for us...

I have to disagree on that, that the longer you are a technician they want you to move into management. Managerial skills are much easier to find than technical skills,...

I have been trying to understand this for a while now. A doctor, lawyer etc have somewhat generic/universal skills - not product specific skills. My problem with the DBA profession...

Amen!! That is my point too, degrees add depth of knowledge and as one grows in age and experience that is a very necessary thing. I guess the DBA profession...

Wayne (and all), would love to hear some words of wisdom on future of DBA positions in the next 10-20 years. I am not talking of future of SQL Server/MS...