There is a curious phenomenon in the United States. It seems that the more advanced we become, the more hours our technology people are working and for less money. At...

I agree with Roger, the amount of chatter this article has prompted pretty well defines its success. Agree or not, it got us all thinking and that's why I come...

My Logitech wireless keyboard.

I have about 150 different queries that I run often all programmed into different key binds. I keep a "simple" excel spreadsheet open in the background for...

Guys, sorry, Im just back from a holiday.

Absolutely NOT, those lines need to be UNCOMMENTED in order for the actual deletion operation to work properly. I commented these as...

You obviously need a key fob (USB) backup. May I suggest this one: http://www.xpcgear.com/8gbusb2drive.html

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Unless SQL 2005 comes with a box of 64 Crayolas and a color by numbers book, I'll stick with a PC.

It really comes down to a certain level of integrity. Either you have it or not. Just because the client doesn't know about it, doesn't mean that you should lolly...

I enjoy both an occasional use of my Tivo/DVR as well as the afternoon forays of traffic complimented by my free 30 day XM satellite subscription. I watch very little...

Realizing that fragmentation is an inevitability, we allocate time each night for a complete run of DBCC DBREINDEX on each database. Of course, as servers fill and client requests increase,...

It's difficult to argue with alot of the comments and justifications in this topic. To several people's point, a phone is very personal and difficult to pick for someone else....

Quality has always been a big topic for us. We've found an effective way to deal with quality issues in our T-SQl is through the use of several layers of...

I too spent countless hours fixated on possible problems due to the mysterious Y2K gremlins. Don't feel slighted, feel proud that you were part of it and learned.

Those that weren't...

Uh, yeah .. what Jay said.

In an effort to keep things "real" for a moment, let's get a couple things straight.

1. Y2K wasn't a "big bust", it was a monumental...

Since it was supposed to be humorous, I considered choosing Oracle since that solution never works for less than 1/2 million dollars. In the end however, I was able to...

Though I was aware of all the tools mentioned, I always find myself looking for excuses to not bother. This was a great reminder that SQL provides various very useful...