krowley (10/31/2013)

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It isn't the work I want to short cut around. I would gladly do MORE work if I could avoid the hell of applying for jobs, traditional interviews etc......

As an American, I fully support this move.

I will make a note that the NSA's job is...

Jennifer Levy (10/28/2013)

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I went to a women's college in the mid-'90s. In my dorm of ~60 women, we had 8 Jennifers, and that seemed to be the ratio across...

Keith Hays (10/27/2013)

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Specifically speaking of interviews, I am not sure of the difference. Lets say the two applicants are equally technically skilled, but one has the forethought to know...

Jeff Moden (10/26/2013)

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Just to be sure, Jim, I wasn't laughing at you. It sounds like you made moves for the better. I was laughing at my own sarcasm...

Oh I know. My company shutdown a software line several years ago that was not profitable. They gave the customers...

I worked for ten years at a company that had 27 stove piped systems. I have lived in the ETL nightmare for a long time.

My current position was transformed into...

I didn't read all 32 pages, but when I was hired at my current company we were a subsidiary HQ, SW development, and support desk. Our sister company upstairs was...

Jeff Moden (10/21/2013)

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+1000. I just went through some real hooie on one of the apps designed before the current team started. One of the apps checks for the...

Randy Rabin (10/11/2013)

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Not sure if anybody else has touched on this, but something unionizing might help with is creating an industry-standard way of defining and measuring DBA skillsets. Someone can...

Jeff Moden (10/1/2013)

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Competence does not trump a good cultural fit and a good cultural fit does not trump competence... at least not where I work.

In other words, we just want...

Eric M Russell (9/30/2013)

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SQL Server has for the last couple of releases been extending beyond the traditional relational model for storing and retreiving data. For example, we now have support...

I can't stand end-users. I can work with most IT people.

But there is a point where I don't care about the muck someone else put together. And I'm more than...

margo.taylor (9/19/2013)

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I am new to the SQL world. My problem is that there are just too many choices. How do I know where to start? I have had no formal...

My life is right now concentrated on shutting down Interbase and other SW. So concentrating on the forward is just beyond my available time.