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  • RE: Does Maturity Make a DBA?

    It is not true to say that maturity comprises faith/religion, community mindedness, or family orientation. It is very small minded to think that this is so. I am disappointed to...

  • RE: Manage Your Career

    I think that careers are only a source of true satisfaction to those of us with ambition and the abilities to go with it. For everyone else jobs are a...

  • RE: Annoyances

    There was a woman who used to sit right behind me who loved dogs. She recorded her two dogs barking and used it as her mobile phone ringtone. Very popular...

  • RE: Global Warming and Business Intelligence

    Imagine this scenario. You are a developer with a query that is performing slowly. Luckily you have several thousand DBA's at your disposal. They look into it and tell you...

  • RE: Global Warming and Business Intelligence

    TJ (2/15/2009)

    Simple: The planet is 4 billion years old. It has heated up, cooled down and back and forth over and over without this so-called human intervention. ...

  • RE: Global Warming and Business Intelligence

    David.Poole (2/12/2009)


    The opportunity to move on to the next generation of technology is here today.

    Hi David, I agree with what you say. I would like to add that there are...

  • RE: Global Warming and Business Intelligence

    Steve, if you are worried about the emissions of your Porsche there is any easy solution. Eat less beef.

    The process of producing a steak produces the equivalent of several hundred...

  • RE: Global Warming and Business Intelligence

    AspiringGeek (2/12/2009)


    Good BI will do little to help us get to the truth, because the truth doesn't matter very much. The IPCC is not a scientific organization, it is...

  • RE: Global Warming and Business Intelligence

    David Reed (2/12/2009)


    There's an army of snowmen on my lawn who'd like to have a word with you about so-called "global warming" (whether anthropogenic or some other unicorn-type):

    There are over...

  • RE: Global Warming and Business Intelligence

    GSquared (2/12/2009)


    It also should be pointed out that mankind and our symbiots (cattle, etc.) are responsible for less than one half of one percent of CO2 that goes into the...

  • RE: Global Warming and Business Intelligence

    robertdorans (2/12/2009)


    These guys can't even predict how much rain will fall in NYC next month. Which rain and snow have a great deal to do with the temprature of...

  • RE: Global Warming and Business Intelligence

    Andrey (2/12/2009)


    When floating ice melts, does the water level rise?

    You are correct, ice floating on water that melts does not cause the sea level to rise. However ice on...

  • RE: Global Warming and Business Intelligence

    TJ (2/12/2009)


    Mind you, those temperature observations were all flawed. How much ACCURACY did that guy at the weather station in Tennessee, oh say, back in 1906, have with his...

  • RE: Global Warming and Business Intelligence

    AspiringGeek (2/12/2009)


    Here are two interesting articles. The first is a review of the scientific literature:

    Environmental Effects of Increased Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide

    http://www.michaelcrichton.com/speech-ourenvironmentalfuture.html

    The next is by the late, great...

  • RE: Open Source Pay

    Jeff Moden (1/22/2009)


    Heh... They don't give a rat's patooti how much overtime I may have to put in nor do they care about how much time I spend studying for...

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