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  • Reply To: I'd like to see SQL Saturdays happen, whether in person or virtually

    Steve Jones - SSC Editor wrote:

    Thanks, Chris,

    Personally, just for the sake of keeping things going, I'd like to see more people run virtual events this year. I think you need less people to run...

  • Reply To: The Pandemic Work Load

    Yes, we've had a noticeable increase in workload. I work for my state's health department, so we've been and continue to be very involved in the fight against the Coronavirus....

  • Reply To: Do it. Try it. Fix it.

    Thanks, Steve.

  • Reply To: Do it. Try it. Fix it.

    Thank you, Steve, for this article. This is a good admonition for me. I don't think I am particularly good at convincing others that a certain practice should be followed,...

  • Reply To: Cutting Edge Technology

    I'm a developer, so yeah, I am attracted to the new and shiny.  What frustrates me at work isn't so much that they don't want to do cutting edge technology....

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  • Reply To: Cutting Edge Technology

    ktflash wrote:

    That is something that is bothering me ALOT.

    I am alone responsible for SSIS, SSAS and query development.

    We have more than 500 tables and 7 different Cubes.

    I can not even...

  • Reply To: Are You Empowered?

    Steve Jones - SSC Editor wrote:

    Rod,

    I think both of those are the reasons that 70+% of people don't feel empowered.

    Well, I'm in good company. 🙂

  • Reply To: Are You Empowered?

    Hi @JRuss, I'm responding from my home account. The earlier one was from my work account.

    The "stay in your own lane" mentality is an unwritten rule. It's a sense I...

  • Reply To: Allowing Failure

    Its evening, I have more time to respond to this.

    Ben, I believe there's a lot to what you said. It is valuable to allow people to fail. I've only done...

  • Reply To: Allowing Failure

    skeleton567 wrote:

    Rod at work wrote:

    Good article, Ben. I appreciate it but am not entirely sure I agree. Not on good grounds, just more because I've never worked anywhere that allowed for experimentation....

  • Reply To: Using an RDL File Locally in .NET to Print Reports

    Good article, Ben. You touch upon a problem I've encountered over the last 4 years at work. I'm on a team that's slowly working on replacing incredibly old Excel and...

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  • Reply To: Checkout One File

    Just a note, in the Pro Git book there's a side note on using git checkout -- <file> that says:

    It’s important to understand that git checkout -- <file> is a...

  • Reply To: Microsoft Fights Back

    Dang, that article by Martin Fowler is a novella. Interesting reading, though.

  • Reply To: Dread or Desire

    I dread returning to the office. It offers me nothing at all. From the office I must put up with interruptions, distractions, and annoyances. I'm one of the few in...

  • Reply To: Where 2021 Will Take Databases

    One of the topics you brought up, Steve, is companies moving to the cloud in 2020 and that you expect that to continue into 2021. I'd like to ask everyone...

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