lsmith 90637 (10/3/2014)

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Of all the OS and Service product lines that they've ever fielded, SQL Server has been THE consistent winner. Even when every other release of Windows falters,...

Gary Varga (10/3/2014)

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True. Compounded by Oracle being inflexible and arrogant is what I heard. Too easy to believe, that...

I see SQL Server use increasing in my area of the country.

Much of the increase seems to be due to the "can't go wrong if using Microsoft" and the increasing...

I have similar issues with Intellisense on SQL Server 2008 and 2012.

Sometimes it works, sometimes it works ....v..e...r..y.......s..l...o...w...l...y and sometimes it just plain refuses to do anything.

I can have...

I have gotten to the point that I am insisting on using production data for development.

Where I have worked in the past few years (health care EMR and governmental work),...

For a twist on the topic.

I have seen people put 'SQL' and 'T-SQL' on their resumes.

What they were trying to say was 'SQL Server' and 'T-SQL'.

More and more...

SQLRNNR (7/30/2014)

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Lynn Pettis (7/30/2014)

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SQL Guy 1 (7/30/2014)

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Ah, if I understand right, you are in US army deployed in Afghanistan?

And the local agencies they are local to Afghanistan or...

I have not had very good luck with agencies in the Mid-South (US).

Seems that very few (that I have had dealings with) take the time to find a job that...

Started a new job not too long ago so I didn't have much vacation time this summer.

Spent the summer working and then preforming the Dad taxi role shuffling my kids...

GoofyGuy (7/21/2014)

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scottgem (7/21/2014)

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GoofyGuy (7/17/2014)

The problem I have with Access isn't Access itself, but the way in which non-IT types use it building their own data stores and 'apps': without any...

1. CTE's. I get it, but I don't.

2. Performance. How to build high performance queries takes time to understand and master. I'm still working my way...

I know your pain.

I have worked with 2 of the biggest EMR vendors in the US in a DBD/report writer role in a hospital environment and have been..uhm..less than impressed...

I would start by reading many of the old posts/articles/stairways on this site.

I have been a DBD/artichect for ~ 15 years and I still manage to learn some new trick/syntax/way...

Phil Parkin (7/17/2014)

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podmate (7/17/2014)

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Now that I am building ETL apps in SSIS, I long for the days when I could script out my ETL process and did not have to...

Eric M Russell (7/17/2014)[hrRegarding SSIS, there are situations where I'll implement all my ETL as parameter and expression driven T-SQL tasks and just rely on Control Flow to tie all...