My favourite vehicle? A VW camper van!

I've had them for the past 19 years, since following a wet holiday in Ireland and the birth of our first child we bought...

In the British Civil Service we are expected to undertake training and it is prioritised by whether it is

mandatory - eg required for legal operation of machinery etc

functional -...

Good luck to you. I moved recently here in the UK and from experience would say:

Don't be so optomistic about 2-3 days as 3 weeks sorting out the basics is...

I often have to return results requiring filtering on both tables AND a left outer join.

My answer is to use a nested subquery for the fields from the right hand...

Some of my Scottish partner's gems:

If it's for ye it'll nae go by ye!

You can't educate pork!

and (usually to my teenagers)

Act your age not your (UK) shoe size!

Nokia 6230i because it is a Nokia (after having various phones we vote them the best) hence the various chargers, headsets etc are widely available and mainly the same for...

Friday 23rd 10a.m. (UK time) and most of us are at work because:

1. Cover is required

2. We've run out of holiday leave days

3. We haven't enough flexi time credit to...

Apart from the usual running the home and parenting my two teenagers, Dinghy Sailing is our hobby. So much so that the main criteria for buying the new home had...

I too love Steve's editorials and always read them and want to see them left just where they are, as they remind me of the work-life balance when they pop...

It's even worse when highly paid contractors are given the work your team could have done and then have to come and ask you for help with something as simple...

I've made a point of removing it from new servers once SQL is installed and the service and agent startup accounts are properly set.

That way it is out before...

I managed to miss the article first time round but having read it and Steve's comments and the forum today I

wholeheartedly agree with Steve on all three areas.

Religion...

There are advantages to working for a pittance for the UK Civil Service!

Apart from the 25 to 30 working days holiday (increases with time served) there's 8 Bank Holidays...

It's easy to have a convention and stick to it yourself (closely anyway). What's really difficult is getting others to use it!

As soon as I read the article I thought "Thankfully we had the anti-MUCK table article not long ago". I'd like to add my vote to those against MUCK tables...