Ninja, where was the job?

A couple months ago, a national contracting company asked me if I was willing to work for $30 per hour in my area (update NY). ...

6 figure for a DBA job????? Where do I send my resume?

It depends on the locations.

Which country? Which state? Which city?

Keep updating the technical skills. Willing to listen to other people's opinions. No matter how good you are, someone may come up with a better idea.

Some...

Maybe lately I am so upset with the financial aid office of the colleges. If your income is below $40,000, the kids do not need to pay anything. ...

The middle class always pay most of the tax and get the least benefits.

So in US, it is better to be very poor or very rich.

Being a contractor, the biggest concern is not knowing if I am going to have a job after the contract ends. If you live in a big city, maybe it...

My company is doing e-business, speed definitely is a big concern. Also all the employees are working at home dial in using VPN.

I just want to clarify we only use named pipes wen we set up DB clusters.

I absolutely agree interpersonal skill is important for a DBA. A 'good' DBA may have the best technical skills. An 'exceptional' DBA is the one who help the...

You can create a view using the old column name of the old tables but actually accessing the new tables. Then you may not need to change every procedure.

Based on my job hunting experiences for the past 8 months in NY, the DBA job description includes knowledge of writing stored procedures, SSIS, performance tuning, database modeling, reporting, business...

My son is accepted by UVA this fall as incoming freshman. Is there any benefit for employee's children studying at UVA eg free tuition?

Is your SQL Server window authenticated? I have been tried to solve this problem since last month. Somehow even I put the password in the connection string, it...

What do you expect? Microsoft is just a software company liked the rest of the other software companies. I heard Microsoft was very harsh to their employees...