In most of my workplace, even I am the 'only' woman in the IT department.   I was treated liked one of the guy, no special treatment.

As for special conference, I...

There are many ways to avoid using cursors depending on how and what you want to do.  I never use extended stored procedure but I am able to avoid using...

You can still make it as dynamic as possible, writing a procedure to do it is much easier.  I just spent a few minutes to think about it so it...

The job description is a DBA job description not a manager.

Salary is mid-forties depending on education and experience with excellent benefits package. 

Even a college graduate earns more than mid-forties in...

Loner - if you do everything the men in your office do, and you have the same (or better) qualifications, and you are being paid less, you need to do...

IF (SELECT COUNT(*) FROM [Header$] WHERE [Project#] IS NOT NULL) > 0

THEN

RAISERROR(.......)

Frank,

The fact is woman get paid less than man in the same position. Yes even in IT, some programmers do database programming, some programmers do web programming.  But if a...

What do you mean by the columns are different for different clients but the database structure is the same?

Do they share the same table?

Frank

There are more men than women in the work force.  In the recent study there was only 26% women in the IT industry.  Don't start with men work working long...

Frank

I work 50 hours a week and I don't have any special previlige over man, and I have more experiences and outperform them.  That makes me earn less !!!!!

It is stink that woman still earn 10% less than man and I believe that is true.  What really makes me upset is salary should be based on skills not...

Usually the company set up a standard for the table names. So it is up to you how to  name your tables.  The most important thing to me is to...

Are you using SQL Server 2000?  I never saw 'dispatch' type before.

http://www.microsoft.com/mspress/books/sampchap/4945f.aspx

This web site showed all the global variables data type and there was no 'dispatch' type.

There are many ways to do it.  Where is the data warehouse reside?

Steve,

You picked the right name for the topic.  Just liked I said the religious people sticked to their rules and their 'BIBLE'.  They also liked to preach to other people...