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  • RE: An Impressive SQL Server

    Since the article was reposted...

    Two of the largest credit charge clearing systems runs on SQL, and has for a long time. The first time I worked on it, it...

  • RE: Are We Suckers?

    Aaron N. Cutshall (12/18/2015)


    Anders Pedersen (12/18/2015)


    2 weeks before I was due for the production switch to 7, the application team was told they would get overtime to try to get...

  • RE: Are We Suckers?

    My worst experience was doing a 6.5 to 7 upgrade. Worked 6 AM to 9 PM, 6 days a week, for about 9 months. No complaints, it needed...

  • RE: Are We Engineers?

    I know a few voodoo priest like DBAs

  • RE: Teambuilding

    Most places I have been there has been no concentrated team building exercises. Most seems to have been checklist items for the manager to have done for their annual...

  • RE: Visualize the timeline of your SQL jobs using Google graph and email

    As someone above me said: this is why I keep coming back to SSC!

  • RE: Training Computer Scientists

    I don't think you should need a CS or IT or whatever they call them these days to be a programmer. Some years back I worked on a huge...

  • RE: Five Rules For Sucessful Conversations With DBAs

    In the past, I was asked to provide access to my divisions data to SalesForce consultants. We handled 3rd party data, so we did not own it. I...

  • RE: April 1 2015, a space oddity

    A man too soon gone 🙁

    I don't even know how many times I have read the entire trilogy. And his other works! The two Dirk Gently books are...

  • RE: Exporting to Excel Using a CLR Stored Procedure

    JCSQL,

    I have not seen that happen myself in the years of using it, but I have to admit I do not think I ever used it for anything quite...

  • RE: Moving On

    My last letter announcing my decision to leave had the following subject line:

    "Sorry, no more cookies"

    And then the announcement I had decided to leave. I think people where more...

  • RE: No Compelling Reason

    Time to convert and regression test has been my main obstacles ever since 6.0.

    So far I have tried to do most upgrades of SQL to coincide with scheduled upgrades to...

  • RE: Access Disdain

    I started my career as an underwriter in an insurance company, with the side job of maintaining the Access 2.0 database (with a VB front end). After about 6...

  • RE: Try to focus on the positive

    djackson 22568 (6/10/2014)


    Anders Pedersen (6/10/2014)


    I kept receiving a paycheck throughout the 2008-20111 dark days.

    That was a long time to work at a bad job. 🙂 I...

  • RE: Try to focus on the positive

    Sometimes it can be a very frustrating job being a DBA though (as can most jobs), as (I think) webrunner alluded to earlier, a lot of my grumpiness in the...

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