I had worked for companies with all sizes. The small size companies usually did not have project plan, my manager gave me users' request, some just said 'Need Finance...

How do I do that?

What do you mean by downloading employee database? You mean the schema or the data?

Anyway why can't you create your own? Is this a homework you need to...

Ben, I just can't help it. For the last few posts, you kept telling people to go to Channel 9 ! You really help to advertise the web...

Ralph, I understand your frustration. However job satisfaction does not come from money. I had this experience twice.

One time this company offered me a job and...

Ralph, you should know by now, only the CEO of the company gets the big paycheck and bonus. The CFO, CIO...any CXX gets all the money, we are the working...

I totally agreed. I learn more from answering the question than reading any book.

Keep it up !!!!!

You can use global temp table ##temp. However you will need to delete it after you are done, otherwise it will stay in tempdb.

Actually specialization in one area is not good for the career and not good for the company, what happens when the employee leave or plainly get sick? In my...

I don't understand one thing, the company wants to pay more money to new college graduate to replace the old programmers. Why does the company want to do that?...

You may want to create an ActiveX script to clear the xls worksheet or delete the old one and create a new one.

My old experience tells me not to use 1, 2, 3 ... in the order_status, put in 100, 200,..because in case you need to put something in between 2 and...

I also do the 'Question of the Day' and it really helps to improve my skill.

When you said the DBA group was a tight knit group, did they not welcome you to ask question? I had this problem before, at my old company...

Sorry I meant I did not want to put any indicator in the fact fact. I typed it too fast and submitted it too fast.