A Friday poll that's a break from work, and should be a bit of fun. Today Steve Jones asks about movies, and what's been interesting from the last year.  Read more...

This Friday Steve Jones asks whether you think the salespeople or the technical people are more important to the success of a company. And if they should be better compensated.  Read more...

This Friday Steve Jones wants to know if you are using encryption in your production system and if so, how is it working? Can you handle DR situations?  Read more...

This Friday Steve Jones asks about change control for the Friday poll.  Read more...

This Friday's poll asks you to tell us what you'd do if you won the lottery. Is there something that you'd rather be doing than your current job? Dream a little and let us know.  Read more...

Today's poll looks at read only data and how you handle the backup and recovery of this data.  Read more...

The last Friday poll of 2011 has Steve Jones asking about what you want out of 2012.  Read more...

This Friday before Christmas, Steve Jones has a fun poll. What would you like for Christmas? Any fun, interesting, fascinating tech toys?  Read more...

This Friday Steve Jones wants to know if you'd like to have an employment contract of some sort. Do you want your duties, or maybe exlcusions, explicitly spelled out in an agreement?  Read more...

This Friday Steve Jones asked about penetration testing of your security. Have any of you ever tested your systems?  Read more...

A career based poll this Friday has Steve Jones asking what your title is, or maybe what you think it should be given the work that you do.  Read more...

Today we have an editorial that was originally published on Aug 31, 2006 as Steve is traveling at DevConnections. It still seems relevant, so answer the poll this week.  Read more...

This week Steve Jones asks about the versions of SQL Server that you have to support in your daily job. Answer this week's poll and let us know the width and breadth of support that you are responsible for maintaining.  Read more...

Planning for disaster recovery entails a lot of different items, but testing is an important one. If you don't test your plans, you can't be sure they will work. This Friday Steve Jones asks how often your test.  Read more...

Today Steve Jones talks about the gaps in our knowledge and our skill sets. He asks which things you think that all data professionals should be learning.  Read more...

This week Steve Jones asks you what you think will make up the majority of your future databases? Will it be numerical data or will some other type come to dominate?  Read more...

Do you want to integrate Twitter with your database server? Steve Jones asks the question this week.  Read more...

This Friday Steve Jones is looking for help with interview questions. What questions have been hard in an interview or surprised you? Let us know and help others be prepared for their next interview.  Read more...

This Friday Steve Jones wants to know what would be your ideal career path.  Read more...

This Friday Steve Jones has a non-work related, but fun poll. Let us know what your geeky media recommendations are this year.  Read more...