June 13, 2011 at 12:58 pm
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If I passed, could I add "Thread Certified" to my resume` ?I thought you already had "Certified" added to your resume.
He's not only sane, he has a certificate to prove it.
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Is there an in missed out in there?
its the punchline from an old joke. To get a certificate saying you are sane you have to have spent some time under suspicion of being insane.
Hence, if you have such a certificate..........
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June 13, 2011 at 1:04 pm
Stefan Krzywicki (6/13/2011)
Brandie Tarvin (6/13/2011)
I think I figured out why the UG in Jax is so popular. According to some news item floating around, Jacksonville, FL is the place to go for DBA jobs. There are tons available and not enough qualified applicants at the moment.It's an employee's market here, folks. Come on over and see us sometime.
I'll take one of the jobs if I can stay in MA!
The problem is convincing one of these companies that you can do the same job from a remote (home) office as you can while sitting at a desk in their office.
I would welcome the opportunity to do that, with the communications technologies available today, the only reason I can come up with for butts in seats is working on classified government contracts.
June 13, 2011 at 1:15 pm
Lynn Pettis (6/13/2011)
Stefan Krzywicki (6/13/2011)
Brandie Tarvin (6/13/2011)
I think I figured out why the UG in Jax is so popular. According to some news item floating around, Jacksonville, FL is the place to go for DBA jobs. There are tons available and not enough qualified applicants at the moment.It's an employee's market here, folks. Come on over and see us sometime.
I'll take one of the jobs if I can stay in MA!
The problem is convincing one of these companies that you can do the same job from a remote (home) office as you can while sitting at a desk in their office.
I would welcome the opportunity to do that, with the communications technologies available today, the only reason I can come up with for butts in seats is working on classified government contracts.
While I'm fine with doing jobs from home 100% of the time and have done them in the past, I do think there's something to be said for face to face meetings. And communication by email tends to be more formal than just stopping by someone's cube to check on something.
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June 13, 2011 at 1:18 pm
Stefan Krzywicki (6/13/2011)
Lynn Pettis (6/13/2011)
Stefan Krzywicki (6/13/2011)
Brandie Tarvin (6/13/2011)
I think I figured out why the UG in Jax is so popular. According to some news item floating around, Jacksonville, FL is the place to go for DBA jobs. There are tons available and not enough qualified applicants at the moment.It's an employee's market here, folks. Come on over and see us sometime.
I'll take one of the jobs if I can stay in MA!
The problem is convincing one of these companies that you can do the same job from a remote (home) office as you can while sitting at a desk in their office.
I would welcome the opportunity to do that, with the communications technologies available today, the only reason I can come up with for butts in seats is working on classified government contracts.
While I'm fine with doing jobs from home 100% of the time and have done them in the past, I do think there's something to be said for face to face meetings. And communication by email tends to be more formal than just stopping by someone's cube to check on something.
I can get things done twice as fast in the office as I can from home. That said, I get three times more *intended* work done when I work from home. There's something to be said for both sides of the equation.
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June 13, 2011 at 1:37 pm
Lynn Pettis (6/13/2011)
Stefan Krzywicki (6/13/2011)
Brandie Tarvin (6/13/2011)
I think I figured out why the UG in Jax is so popular. According to some news item floating around, Jacksonville, FL is the place to go for DBA jobs. There are tons available and not enough qualified applicants at the moment.It's an employee's market here, folks. Come on over and see us sometime.
I'll take one of the jobs if I can stay in MA!
The problem is convincing one of these companies that you can do the same job from a remote (home) office as you can while sitting at a desk in their office.
I would welcome the opportunity to do that, with the communications technologies available today, the only reason I can come up with for butts in seats is working on classified government contracts.
Over the years I've found that I sometimes have to talk to people face to face, and/or get a group together round a whiteboard to work things out, and/or go have a meal or a few beers with colleagues, if I want to work effectively and have my team work effectively too. Customers (actual or potential), Venture Capitalists and other Investors (again whether actual or potential) have to be stroked frm time to time too, and that's best done face to face. There are sometimes technical issues which require hands-on presence too (for example when I worked on data comms I sometimes found it difficult to do remote debugging or maintenance on communications devices that had ceased to communicate). That doesn't mean I need to be in the office (or in one of the offices, since I seem to have had multi-location jobs for a very large proportion of my life) all the time - working from home is fine for many things; but any jobs that requires no face-to-face contact is, in my view, extremely weird.
Tom
June 13, 2011 at 2:00 pm
Depends on the job. My wife has been in consulting and sales engineering for 15 years. Productive at home, and productive on the road. An office doesn't necessarily make sense for her, and it's worked well for that type of job.
For me, I love being at home, and I'm more productive, and faster, and work longer, but I'm doing tasks that are solo 99% of the time.
If you collaborate a lot, it can be hard, but it can be done. Mostly requires getting a good team and keeping them so they can learn to work together. However I think it's easier to be in the office for meetings and at times when you need to work together.
Telecommuting isn't' for everyone. Some people need the separation of work and home.
June 13, 2011 at 2:01 pm
My daughter was not thrilled with FL last weekend. Too hot for her. My wife canceled a trip to Baton Rouge with me for the same reason.
I however, like the hot weather.
June 13, 2011 at 2:07 pm
Steve Jones - SSC Editor (6/13/2011)
My daughter was not thrilled with FL last weekend. Too hot for her. My wife canceled a trip to Baton Rouge with me for the same reason.I however, like the hot weather.
Where in FL? Different parts have significantly different weather.
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June 13, 2011 at 2:58 pm
GSquared (6/13/2011)
Steve Jones - SSC Editor (6/13/2011)
My daughter was not thrilled with FL last weekend. Too hot for her. My wife canceled a trip to Baton Rouge with me for the same reason.I however, like the hot weather.
Where in FL? Different parts have significantly different weather.
lol ETC...hadn't seen that one earlier
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June 13, 2011 at 3:01 pm
GSquared (6/13/2011)
Steve Jones - SSC Editor (6/13/2011)
My daughter was not thrilled with FL last weekend. Too hot for her. My wife canceled a trip to Baton Rouge with me for the same reason.I however, like the hot weather.
Where in FL? Different parts have significantly different weather.
Pah, Arizona is a desert, doncha know?! Really, there's nowhere to ski here... and there isn't an ounce of green that isn't the color of some wildfire.
Though, I am kinda surprised to hear it's THAT different, as I was unaware that Florida had a mountain range other than the tail of the Adirondacks. I could see large differences in humidity, but not necessarily general weather other then where the rain hit.
(For those unaware, Arizona, while containing Phoenix and Tucson in the Sun Valley, also has Flagstaff, home of the 'Snow Bowl', the Rim which is a popular camping site in summer ~30 degrees less then the desert, and some wonderful boating on our lakes, of which there are MANY. We used to be the highest boat per capita state... in a desert. I think we're #2 now.)
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June 13, 2011 at 3:11 pm
Craig Farrell (6/13/2011)
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Steve Jones - SSC Editor (6/13/2011)
My daughter was not thrilled with FL last weekend. Too hot for her. My wife canceled a trip to Baton Rouge with me for the same reason.I however, like the hot weather.
Where in FL? Different parts have significantly different weather.
Pah, Arizona is a desert, doncha know?! Really, there's nowhere to ski here... and there isn't an ounce of green that isn't the color of some wildfire.
Though, I am kinda surprised to hear it's THAT different, as I was unaware that Florida had a mountain range other than the tail of the Adirondacks. I could see large differences in humidity, but not necessarily general weather other then where the rain hit.
(For those unaware, Arizona, while containing Phoenix and Tucson in the Sun Valley, also has Flagstaff, home of the 'Snow Bowl', the Rim which is a popular camping site in summer ~30 degrees less then the desert, and some wonderful boating on our lakes, of which there are MANY. We used to be the highest boat per capita state... in a desert. I think we're #2 now.)
We also have a ski resort near the area where the fires are called Sunrise. Beautiful ponderosa pine country.
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June 13, 2011 at 3:29 pm
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To quote from a thread I've been involved:Also, I will start to participate on the site more often. It has always been useful and seems to be very helpful and friendly.
What else can we ask for?
I just stumbled onto the thread. You may have created another SSC Addict. Very nice feedback from all perspectives!
There will be a pop quiz on The Thread for all newly arrived members, tomorrow. You will be expected to recite all posts in it verbatim.
Either that or welcome aboard, and ignore the ramblings you want to ignore and participate in the ones you like. 🙂
Pop quiz will also contain a recital of all acronyms in Gus' signature.
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June 13, 2011 at 3:38 pm
Jack Corbett (6/13/2011)
Haven't been on here in awhile, and haven't even tried to catch up yet. I've been packing and cleaning the last 2 weeks and tomorrow is the big day when the movers come and start taking our stuff up to NH. We'll be leaving shortly after the truck leaves and be arriving in NH on Friday.I actually start work next Monday on a 6 month contract in Concord, NH. I'll be doing T-SQL performance tuning mostly. They have a 3rd-party app that isn't scaling and need the SP's re-written to improve performance. I'll likely be making some indexing recommendation's as well. They do have a production DBA, that, while they haven't mentioned working with him, I'm planning on getting to know him and working with him. The application is a port from Oracle, so I'm betting there will be some quick fixes I can apply to take advantage of SQL Server's architectural differences.
I'll be travelling the rest of the week so probably won't be online much for a couple of weeks as I'll need to get internet service to my rent.
Looking forward to seeing my New England friends this summer. Hope to get to Grant's UG sometime and get him and others up to the Seacoast SQL User Group in NH (yes you Stefan!)
Wow - it all seems to have happened so quickly.
Good luck.
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June 13, 2011 at 3:42 pm
Jack Corbett (6/13/2011)
Haven't been on here in awhile, and haven't even tried to catch up yet. I've been packing and cleaning the last 2 weeks and tomorrow is the big day when the movers come and start taking our stuff up to NH. We'll be leaving shortly after the truck leaves and be arriving in NH on Friday.I actually start work next Monday on a 6 month contract in Concord, NH. I'll be doing T-SQL performance tuning mostly. They have a 3rd-party app that isn't scaling and need the SP's re-written to improve performance. I'll likely be making some indexing recommendation's as well. They do have a production DBA, that, while they haven't mentioned working with him, I'm planning on getting to know him and working with him. The application is a port from Oracle, so I'm betting there will be some quick fixes I can apply to take advantage of SQL Server's architectural differences.
I'll be travelling the rest of the week so probably won't be online much for a couple of weeks as I'll need to get internet service to my rent.
Looking forward to seeing my New England friends this summer. Hope to get to Grant's UG sometime and get him and others up to the Seacoast SQL User Group in NH (yes you Stefan!)
Congratulations and best of luck, Unk.
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June 13, 2011 at 3:55 pm
Steve Jones - SSC Editor (6/13/2011)
Top month posting for the Ninja is 1717.Wow, not sure I've ever posted that much.
Assuming a few e-mails here and there that's 21 000 post PER YEAR.
When was the site created already :w00t:?
Tx Steve. I knew I had been insane once... not sure I'd want to do that again any time soon while working full time :hehe: (ya I had time to spare, but still...)
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