In some of the software I've written I've made it write to the event log. And personally I really like doing that. I can put in detailed information as to...

Unit testing is new to me. Where I worked it was the culture not to do it at all. However, since having left there I've been teaching myself new skills,...

blah12345 83778 (8/20/2014)

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I think the term bronze age development really does sum up writing t-SQL, there are some tools which are starting to emerge and get better but the tooling...

Andy, I like your idea about going to Indeed, Monster, whatever, and looking up one's title, or the title one would like to have, to learn more about it. Great...

I didn't know that. That is really cool, thanks for this tip!

Man, I like what you said here, Andy. +1, up arrow, Like, etc.!!

skeleton567 (7/11/2014)

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Rod:

I want to wish you well in the job search.

I hope you will be as fortunate in the downsizing as I was my last time. Company...

skeleton567 (7/11/2014)

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Well, don't be surprised too much. What you younger folks are facing is the fact that a company can discover a need for a skill, and instead of...

Very true, skeleton567, and I don't deny that one has to take responsibility for their own betterment. I'm just saying I'm very surprised that so many companies aren't interested in...

Good article, David. I want to jump off on one thing, and expound upon something you said early in the article about people attending conferences in order to learn.

I think...

Very good article, Sarah. And it was encouraging to me as well. Thank you for sharing it!

paul.knibbs (6/23/2014)

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Quick question: you're not getting confused between 2008 and 2008 R2, are you? They're separate products with separate service packs, so if you downloaded the one for 2008 when...

Do you mean something like just uninstall SQL 2008 and then put on SQL 2014? (Making sure that I've disconnected the databases or did a full backup first.)

So, the idea is to attach the image as a file attachment to the email, and then use cid as the protocol to render it in the email. Is that...

Thank you, Lynn and Craig.