There's a lot to unpack here. I agree that there are few true experts given the amount of time and effort required to develop genuine expertise. Also, that often requires...

I agree with the sentiment, but I know many people work for organizations or managers who do not respect time off or consider it their responsibility to have staff redundancies...

I agree with many of the points made in the editorial. I consider technical work to be "hard" generally speaking. While not physically demanding, the attention to detail and precision...

I think several items are being conflated together here. The overall subject of dealing with disappointment is broad in and of itself. Depending on the severity, various levels of disappointment...

This is one of those great solutions that is both simple and innovative. You know you have something brilliant when you see it and say how did I not think...

My experience is that what determines how successful someone will ultimately be in a technical role is their approach. For me, what has worked best was identifying the goal to...

To me team building isn't about exercises or "fun" activities. The ability to work well together comes from actually working with skilled co-workers and everyone striving to be respectful of...

I'm no longer have any DBA responsibilities in my new role. However, when I was responsible for about 35 production servers in a virtualized environment, where I had no access...

I've encountered this scenario a few times. At the highest level, I think it's the result of the business and decision makers treating IT as simply overhead and an afterthought....

I enjoy training people actually, but they have to want to learn and put forth the appropriate effort. Spend some time on the problem independently, do some research, and make...

In another role, the shop I worked in required line by line code review of all scripts before something could be submitted for release to the client. Sometimes, it was...

I don't mind learning new things that increase my value and add to my core competency. However, where I've had issue in the past is where the organization needs an...

I think part of the issue with text is that intent and body language is absent, making interpretation vary wildly.

I've not worked with many pure DBAs so I can't speak...

TheFault (5/10/2016)

There's often a...