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  • RE: Some questions related to database administration

    Along the lines of the self-promotion...

    I've also written an article, Changing Career Gears[/url], for SSC. I moved into SQL Server administration from a non-IT career. My biggest problem, at...

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  • RE: Today's Random Word!

    WOTD: Superbowl

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  • RE: From DBA / Dev to Management

    Tom.Thomson (2/3/2011)


    I've flipped between management and non-management many times during my career

    This leads to another question. How easy is it to get a future tech job when you have that...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Jack Corbett (2/3/2011)


    I'm officially looking for work. I'm finishing up where I'm at and need to have something that starts late June or early July. Preferably in northern...

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  • RE: Today's Random Word!

    Peter Trast (2/3/2011)


    Microsoft Certified ...(insert many literal strings here)

    This being a silly thread, and me being in a silly mood, I just have to ask.

    Did you manage to get the...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Stefan Krzywicki (2/3/2011)


    GSquared (2/3/2011)


    GilaMonster (2/2/2011)


    Jason, Gus, Brandie, Wayne and Stefan. How do you want to be credited in tran log article? Blog link? twitter handle? Both? Neither? something else?

    Please let...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    GilaMonster (2/3/2011)


    Dave Ballantyne (2/3/2011)


    Let see what happens in response to my last post http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/FindPost1058024.aspx at time of writing , see if we can turn this thing around 🙂

    Errr, let me...

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  • RE: UPDATE using a self-join

    GSquared (2/3/2011)


    So, yeah, let them use Excel as a database, so long as they understand the issues with concurrency, contention, integrity, reliability, recoverability, et al.

    I have highlighted the three relevant...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Grant Fritchey (2/3/2011)


    It's just silly to obscure the language so badly when you're talking tech. All our little abbreviations & code words make it hard enough to understand that taking...

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  • RE: Are the posted questions getting worse?

    Koen (da-zero) (2/3/2011)


    Grant Fritchey (2/3/2011)


    I have to say, it's entertaining as hell. You guys should keep poking him/her (most likely him).

    I just hope he someday realizes that he has wasted...

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  • RE: Today's Random Word!

    John Rowan (2/2/2011)


    ...the best thing about an Omaha winter is escaping it.....you'd know Brandie!

    The snow's not the problem. It's the wind and the ice that kills. Especially with all those...

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  • RE: Today's Random Word!

    Florida is having to suffer through 70 degree weather. I don't know how we're going to manage.

    (Hiding now)

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  • RE: From DBA / Dev to Management

    Next question:

    How did you half-management / half-DBA types deal with the overload of DBA tasks?

    I.E., say there's too much workload for the DBA team to handle in a 40...

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  • RE: From DBA / Dev to Management

    GSquared (2/2/2011)


    I'm not so sure about the POTUS thing. Carter, Reagan, Clinton, and Bush Jr were all governors. I don't remember what Bush Sr was, besides a CIA...

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  • RE: From DBA / Dev to Management

    SQLDCH (2/1/2011)


    My boss has intimated that the BI side of things is a much better path to management. Would you all agree?

    It really does depend, mainly on the company....

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