Religious people especially Christian (fundamentalist) and Islam, Judam, they are all absolute.  Whatever they do is according to their rule and the 'BIBLE'.  They are the worst DBAs to work with.

I agreed Project manager was important and in all my career and did tons of projects, I probably met only two that were good.

But another important pieces are the developers. ...

"Don't allow internet access for developers"

I will be dead.  I depend on the internet to find the answers to a lot of my problems.  Internet is one of my training...

In the book Steve said when a project falls behind, the most logical thing is looking to see which scope can be delayed for next phase.

Actually the big projects I...

For my career life, I learn everything on my own.  No company even sent me to training.

You can't believe how much money I spent on Amazon.com.  They actually sent...

We have a brand new project and we develop in SQL Server 2005 since there is nothing to convert, nothing to affect production.  So far we haven't used too much of...

Maybe this forum should be deleted since no one used it !!!!

It is problem of excel.  When it sees a numeric fields, it will automatically delete the leading zeros.  The only way is before loading into the sheet, select the column...

I went to the web site.  The conference did not look too appealing to me.  There is another BI conference by TDWI.  That one is much better.  It has a...

If you consider part time, how many hours would you expect that person to work on the project and also what is the rate?

Steve Ballmer is the CEO of Microsoft so if he missed the superbowl to close a business deal, to him it is normal.  He probably missed a lot more things...

Today most companies don't expect their employees to have a personal life.  Even since the economy goes down, they feel liked you should be graceful that you have a job. ...

It depends on company expectation.  I worked for a company, even the CEO thought that I was doing a good job.  However I had to pick up my son from...

The Hyperion consultant works in my company now to bring Hyperion up, he is an Oracle developer, but we use SQL Server.  I saw his procedures that he wrote and...

I did wrote an article about data quality before I wrote the article Problems with data warehouse.  But you are right, data quality is number one problem in building data...