This is a great reason why businesses should use contractors or implement a contract-to-hire process. If you bring someone on and they are incompetent, you hit the eject button and...

Now here's a question: is there insurance available to cover loss & damages due to data breaches? You can take have product liability insurance if your product can kill people...

One thing I dearly miss from the Query Analyzer days is Ctrl-B. That combo would highlight the results pane bar and then you could move the pane up & down...

Simple yet powerful. This is a keeper. Thanks!

My wife "opened a dialog inside her company" and she was made redundant 6 months later; replaced on a whim really. I "opened a dialog inside my company" a few...

So, kind of a query "factory". Sounds good to me. Would you feel confident using an "optimal" query plan that's generated on sub-optimal hardware? You'd have to account for operators...

msoutherland (9/9/2010)

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In a perfect world, it would be great if everyone was able to choose the job that was perfect for them. However, this isn't a perfect world and...

Too bad salaries have stagnated over the last 10 years. I see DBA jobs advertised at the same pay - sometimes less - that what I was earning 10 years...

There's a person in my office who handles PO's & invoices, licensing compliance, scheduling, staff reporting, timsheets, filters telephone calls, arranges birthdays, etc...and she always does the job cheerfully. She...

TravisDBA (8/20/2010)

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Massive Data Archiving. Most people I interview have not done this at all, and it is a must at most companies sooner or later. It's a great thing...

Career? Do real people even have careers anymore? That sounds like a Boomer concept that briefly made an appearance between 1950-1980. These days, a "career" is more like a series...

There is a huge difference between what Google can do and Tiny Sales Inc can do when it comes to security. Not to mention a lot of security breaches come...

jay holovacs (8/10/2010)

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James Stover (8/9/2010)

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Sure...for those businesses that are going to flout the law anyway. For those who adhere to the rules, it gives them proper incentive (and justification) to...

In the publishing game, they call this an "advertorial". You've done it justice.

Jonathan Melo (8/9/2010)

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James,

So you suggest having very hefty penalties for any data breach in order to solve the problem? Wouldn't that strongly encourage corporations experiencing such a breach to keep...