And Hakim, I must say that you are doing a good job of responding to the criticism that came out of this post.

j_e_o (8/6/2012)

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In most cases, the author comes away from the review with their ego intact and their head held high because we are all focused on quality and are willing...

IowaTechBear (8/2/2012)[hr Just as a good question to ask about a developer, "What would happen if xxxxx were to be run over by an ice cream truck? (I don't know...

cksid (7/30/2012)

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I was one of those horrible supervisors. Twenty years ago out of college, I was a manager of a Domino's Pizza and I was horrible to my employees....

GSquared (7/25/2012)I used to work at a company where your review had to include scores from 1-10 on various aspects of your job duties. Wasn't ranked against others directly,...

Derek,

I loved the way you used a problem you ran into as an opportunity to educate the rest of us.

Also, in regards to e-mailing the apology, I've found that most...

david.wright-948385 (7/11/2012)

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But there is another side to this coin: when someone else is wrong, we need to treat that in a helpful light too. It's so much easier to...

Duh, I knew that. Guess my brain...

Peter H, thanks for the SQL.

One thing I was wondering about is why you have the "order by 1" phrase.

davoscollective,

Thanks very much. This gives me some excellent stats.

I'm still running into the problem that if I have the same report with multiple subscriptions (due to different parameters), I...

Just wanted to say thanks once again for all of the answers. It's been enlightening and fun reading. 🙂

Thanks to all who replied for satisfying my curiosity. I have a lot to learn and I truly appreciate those who take the time to help.

And, by the way, I forgot to say that I am very grateful.

I agree with the 'pay it forward' concept and have done that with my knowledge in the past....

I'm moving from doing 30 years of VMS/COBOL programming into the world of Windows. Mostly working on SQL Server and Report Builder right now. I want to eventually...

Well said. Most of the replies have already stated what I was thinking.

Once these people get out of college and into the workplace, they will still be expecting someone...