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  • RE: Where Do You End Up as a DBA?

    Where do they land? Good question, but the answer is a question really. Where do you want to land? You make the decision. You gather information, get...

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  • RE: Approximate Data types

    I came late to the game. Nice one!

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  • RE: Byte Me: Bug Out

    Excellent! and more real life then joking!

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  • RE: Salaries and Experience

    paul.kemner (2/17/2015)


    It seems the 'sell-by date' for IT workers gets lower and lower, yet I never see this pointed out to people starting out in the field. IT has that...

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  • RE: Starting a New Job

    I have had two IT jobs in the last 44 years. This one is a month shy of 30 years, with no end in sight. I have no idea at...

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  • RE: Ship Safe...Ship Often

    There should be some threshold reached to warrant a new release. One tweak of the UI or a new color in one text box is not enough. In...

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  • RE: Testing

    It seems there is never enough time to properly test software after it is complete.

    There in lies a significant part of the problem. To define something as "complete"...

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  • RE: IMPLICIT_TRANSACTIONS & BEGIN TRAN

    TomThomson (1/12/2015)


    Hugo Kornelis (1/12/2015)


    I never liked implicit transaction, and I never will.

    I am also glad that Carlo used PRINT, not SELECT. I thought that using SELECT would have started the...

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  • RE: Selling Automation to Ops

    Over the last 15 or so years of the thirty or so I have worked, I have been on both sides of the fence interchangeably. Years back in the...

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  • RE: Recovering from Bad Deployments

    The worst thing you can do is to assume that even the most simple deployment will go perfectly. Each deployment should be treated as if it will completely destroy...

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  • RE: Power View

    TomThomson (1/2/2015)


    The "correct" answer is somewhat naive, and rather misleading to say the least.

    There are currently 12 ways of licensing Excel 2013 using an Office suite license (Office 2013, Office...

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  • RE: Byte Me: Out With the Old

    It is interesting how young the new looks and how beaten the old is!

    You learn lot in a year, if you will get into the fray and ...

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  • RE: What's Coming True?

    Windows 10 will be a hit Microsoft will get this one right. From the beta or early release program are predictions that the 10 combines the good of both...

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  • RE: Merry Christmas 2014 and Happy Holidays

    Iwas Bornready (12/29/2014)


    I missed wishing everyone a Merry Christmas as I was out. So Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

    +1

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  • RE: ‘Twas the night before the upgrade…

    Excellent, well written and a good read.

    I could not help but think "I knew that guy!"

    M.

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