My favorite is leaving out the USE statement or not using fully qualified object names. Wish I had a nickel for every time some one handed me code and said...

One of the things I've done to help me get the bigger picture is to limit checking email to four times a day. I work in a large enterprise with...

At the company I work for, with a few exceptions, work life balance is pretty well respected.

I think at least some of the resposponsibility for respect of off-hours falls...

I realize this post is old, but I found it handy for a problem I was working today.

One thing I added was to change the CREATE to an ALTER....

Great question. I did get to eat my lunch, but only after consulting books online (good thing I have an unlimited data plan!) and doing a bit of thinking.

Good...

The way I look at it, I would rather have bennies trimmed then my job. I can only demand what the market will bear.

At the company I work for they actively encourage telecommuting. It's good for my moral and productivity to work a few days in my shorts in the back yard.

I...

I have found, at least in the company I am in now, that experience is actually valued. I am a DBA working in a production support role and in that...

I read the error log into a temp table and get my information from there.

At a high level my approach to promoting changes are as follows:

Planning:

Identify and notify stake holders of upcoming change and secure approval. If the change is coming as...