Good on you,...

I would have to say the place that strikes a good balance between various competing demands is usually the most fun and least hateful.

a balance between life outside of work...

Oh, I can recount a few horror stories. It's why Office Space was a bit eerie. Still is whenever I watch it.

And admittedly, sometimes I've made some poor...

Andy, sorry, I've been working in IT for closing in on 30 years, so I've been through several organizations and seen even more high dollar management people in action.

I digress...

I usually get no lunch two to three days a week, sometimes that includes all 5 weekdays. So I don't care if there's a kitchen or not.

As far...

Actually I'm pretty familiar with troubleshooting(in this case the error didn't reproduce.) But I don't want to be troubleshooting this layer of the system. And it's not that...

So I'm sitting here trying to read through the source of an .asp page because it occasionally kicks out an iis 500 error. And I've been assigned to locate...

Cody K (3/31/2014)

I really like working with SQL Server and it seems like the right place in tech for me. But I'm also terribly, terribly unhappy with my workplace, looking...

As other posters have stated, a 2008 (+R2) or 2005 backup is restorable to Sql Server 2012. The database will be upgraded to Sql Server 2012 when you restore...

Yeah, it's Sql Server 2000. It doesn't do anything for me, but supposedly they're going to let me migrate the 2k to 2012 later this year, so once that's...

Well, as far as I can tell, the config option to optimize for ad-hoc workloads wasn't available in Sql Server 2000. But it's been awhile since I'd had to...

I've tried restricting Q2 to single threaded execution, and that didn't help, it just eliminated the parallelism from the plan and extended the duration time a trivial amount.

I haven't checked...

Andy, it might seem like I'm laying it in for you, but I'm really not. Seriously, I'm joking about my RAEG.

But managers don't push to advance the...

I've seen it, but it's always worth another viewing.

It's funny but/because it's aneurism-inducingly close to reality.

Seriously though, the reason the triangle is applied so much is simply because it's so applicable.

But it IS misapplied in this case. For the sake of this discussion, look...