GeorgeCopeland (10/23/2013)

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Ian Massi (10/23/2013)

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I've heard that in some places it's mandatory to take at least a week at a time at least once a year in order to make sure...

I am pretty happy with my current employer, we have 15 PTO + 7 sick days. If we don't take sick time, it builds up to extended sick time,...

Hi Steve, I am very sorry to hear about your friends; I just had one of my oldest friends pass away last year as well and he was only 44....

My environment is very large and we use Netbackup to backup a lot of servers and it works well, for the most part. One concern I do have is...

I've been the victom of a bad reference without my knowledge. Luckily, it was localized to one company, I was applying for. The person who gave me the...

What I heard is that when you have SA and 2008 CPU licenses, MS will convert that to how many cores you have installed, if you have a total of...

It's like a mechanic says, "Pay me a little now or a lot later." Companies are overly concerned with the next quarter's profit statements at the expense of long-term...

I think what he was getting at was that a lot of "experts" receive the wrong type of training. This is common in any industry. What I think...

Great Reply,

It seems even I forgot about that. Yes, assistants and secretaries were a great time saver for executives and managers, they kept you focused on the real...

SSCertifiable,

I've seen so many cases where mediocrity is rewarded because of those training certificates. My best/worst example was also a c++ program done by "experts." It took...

What can be more troubling is when managers and other non-technical people are using tools such as SQL Management Studio because a developer has given them a script to run,...

We do backups to tape using Netbackup and SQL 2012 is not supported by Symantec yet. Does anyone have a release date for that one?

I've seen both ends of this one as a developer and as a DBA who has to run hundreds of data fix scripts a week. The pressures of management...

I've been working in technology since 1992 and it's been great except for a couple of speed bumps but i look back on my friends from high school who are...

I agree that we should all learn about technologies that relate to our core technologies even though they are technically "not our job". Knowing VMWare, AD, and development(C#, C++,...