 | Then we have some fairly quiet periods where we work on tuning things that don't work well. |
Heh.. thought you didn't spend anytime tuning... thought you always bought hardware so you had time to ride your horse 
I agree... if you're a "Systems" DBA, then there's no reason why you can't tele-commute except for the obvious periods of duress...
But, if you're what I call an "Applications DBA", then you need to be at work as a mentor to the Developers and Systems Analysts (the kind that define what a project will consist of).
We have both... our main "Systems" DBA actually lives way out in Oregon (we're in Michigan and North Carolina) and our "Applications" DBAs are on site most of the time.
--Jeff Moden
RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.
Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
Helpful Links:
How to post code problems
How to Post Performance Problems
Create a Tally Function (fnTally)