I don't mean to change the subject here.

But recently there is a drop of students majoring computer science in college, especially after the dot.com bursted. A lot of technical people got...

Woking in IT is HARD !

Being a woman and working in IT is extremely HARD !!

Being a woman and a MOM working in IT is SUPER, SUPER HARD !!!

Both !!!

"Attrition rate of the company" and "attrition rate of the department"

Attrition rate is how many people resigns and leaves the company.

When I interviewed, I asked the attrition rate of the...

Anthony,

Everywhere is the same.  The bigger the company, the more politics you have to due with. You are still young, changing career seems a little drastic at this point unless...

If you have a job, the pay and benefit is alright.  The comapny is alrignt but you have to drive 45 minutes to work each way.  Also, the IT department is...

I read the copyright rule of this website and it is still the same.

Unlike some publishers, SQL Server Central does not ask for copyright to your work.

The script was posted on 2004.  It seemed that the author deleted the post because he did not want Redgate take it.

I have worked for over 10 companies.  Sometimes the project was exiciting and sometimes the work was bored.  There was only one job that I felt liked I could not wait...

Thanks Mudluck.  I read those articles and I did not remember where I read it.  So I wrote the post that India had shortage of labor but I did not...

I used to oppose people working at home because I felt it was hard to get hold of them and I also felt people interaction was important.

However now I would...

Please do not mention about off shore or remote developers / DBA.  I used to work with them in my former company.

For offshore developers, the biggest problems is language and time...

I created a text file with chinese characters in it and saved it as Unicode text file.  Then I created a table with nvarchar for the fields with chinese character. ...

How do you define the SQL table ?  The only data type that supports unicode in SQL Server is NVARCHAR, NCHAR and NTEXT.