Be prepared to answer and ask questions. Write your questions down before the interview. Refer to them and let people see that you have a list of questions to appear...

Meetings can be good. However, they need to be short, to the point, make decisions, and not be rambling sessions where everyone gets their say three or four times,...

Yes, it is important. However we are business-driven not technology-driven so the business needs drive the wagon. We do try to inform the business teams about available and...

Nice to have a freebie +1

Tao - 6.2

Why are programmers non-productive?

Because their time is wasted in meetings.

Why are programmers rebellious?

Because the management interferes too much.

M.

Roland,

You are saying this for efficiency sake not to avoide doing something that will fail right? The rebuild w/o dropping will work, with a small data collection it...

I answered with hope there was such a thing and won. Excellent!

For the basic operation of an RDBMS they both do what is required. One costs a lot, the other cost ten times that or more. You get what...

Great warmup for a Monday! +1

On the topic,

Planning and estimating with padding is all well and good. For the post part we are close or within a reasonable percentage of error. And...

Loner (10/8/2007)

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I can only complain at the web site or some blogs. I am sorry you have to listen to my complain. Maybe I should stop complaining at...

Cool! Thanks

Custom software is for custom work process and product. General business requirements are not custom. Buy to solve the common but do not buy more than needed. ...

The way I see this is yes you can add as many indexes as possible to enhance the performance. But not all will speed things up. Best case...

Shows both a trick and a trap. Might not use either but might be good to remember when trying to determine why something does not work exactly as expected....