You would not believe the types of behaviour that management puts up with just because they have such a hard time filling specialized roles:

- A project manager forged a signature...

Todd -

I do understand why they don't want to think of this as an association, much as you describe. The part that causes me grief is their insistence that there...

All this discussion about what to call these tables points out that we as a profession do a lousy job of defining our profession ;-).

These tables can be referred to...

I've become such a cynic about how people just don't care enough about their customers to protect data properly. As a data architect it's a constant grind for me...

The All Access license comes in many flavours.

One of the other benefits of this license scheme is the concept of InstantOn. With InstantOn, you can, if you want, run...

What makes SSC so valuable to me is the community of other SQL Server professionals who can share their lessons learned, their insights, and their opinions. Whenever I need...

I've had managers like that. Fortunately, as a consultant, I don't have to stay with them as long as full time employees do.

When I see managers refusing to send...

While I do believe that trust is a huge part of this discussion, as Jerry Weinberg says "trust everyone, but always cut the deck".

I have worked with some really talented,...

They give me a legit reason to be rude during a meeting while I'm "checking the production servers".  The boss loves it that I'm always multi-tasking

If you can get remote access established, then you can also run some of the free server monitor applications like Spiceworks or OpManager to ping SQL server or even other...

...plus I've used something like this http://msmobiles.com/news.php/4798.html or this http://www.xb.com/products/pocketdba/ which means I don't have to use TS.  A real bonus, as I have both a sliding qwerty keyboard and...

I have used TS on my PocketPC numerous times to reboot a server, run a job, restart a service, etc.  Yes, it's not pretty, and I will always use a...

Just make sure you report the bugs to Embarcadero - the are normally incredibly responsive, so I'd be surprised if a bug report were ignored.

Karen

There are a couple of myths in your post. Some may have been true in the past, but they aren't any longer.

Sending spam is not illegal in the US.  All you...

Spam is initiated by spammers, but today between 80 and 90% of unwanted e-mail is being sent by compromised PCs.  That means yer average Joe is allowing spam to be...