Couldn't agree more with the editorial. I found my current job through a user group. And if I were a hiring manager, I'd be approaching people at a user group...

Dave62 (5/20/2014)

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... Do me a favor; put your database object code in source control. Add all your DDL for tables, views, functions, stored procedures, and anything else you...

Great editorial.

When something doesn't affect you directly, it's easy to miss or minimize it. My advice to anyone who thinks these groups are divisive is: join them.

I agree with Steve on Anonymous. Of course it's easy to say "find a new job" but much more stressful if you're already living paycheck to paycheck, have debts or...

I have lots of passwords.

Pet peeve: when a website has password limitations. Password must be less than 10 characters, or must be alphanumeric only (no symbols) - that's a...

I've used #sqlhelp a couple of times for quick, almost dumb questions that I couldn't find a quick answer for using google, but knew someone had to know off the...

Jeff Moden (3/3/2014)

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SQLRNNR (3/3/2014)

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Yeah...

"I've encountered DBAs who seemed ill equipped to administer a home grocery list and checkbook"

This made me laugh out loud. Thankfully I haven't encountered such DBAs.

I have this problem! I have my phone by me all day and forget to plug it in. Then, when I'm out & about and go to use my mobile...

Long but well thought through editorial.

Certainly very valuable when managing business expectations of IT work. I've had the experience of someone saying "It shouldn't take 3 months to do xyz"...

"One of their main products, Office, is essentially done. What more can you do to those applications that people need?"

I liked this sentence from 2009. I know for most regular...

djackson 22568 (8/28/2013)

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First, groups that support a single gender, race or ethnicity are just as bad when it comes to continuing prejudice, and for those people who are ignorant enough...

I'm surprised (or I'd be surprised) that there isn't a way to automatically audit Excel sheets for these sorts of mistakes. I know Excel will highlight if a formula isn't...

+1

My Netflix homepage is a dozen preschool shows (Sesame Street, Dr Seuss movies, Leap Frog, Curious George, Disney, Thomas) followed by "critically-acclaimed violent movies" including Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs....

I've seen quite a few demos (esp. involving Power View) where the visualization being demonstrated looks fantastic, but it actually doesn't say anything useful (or takes up a lot of...