avir673 (5/31/2011)

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It's not a nasty comment at all. I just don't understand the point of wishing people a Happy Memorial Day. What is so happy about it? Brave young people...

Why the nasty...

It's impossible to answer this. My mind is in an infinite loop...

Steve,

I didn't know you had a SQL Server time machine? 2011, then 2010? Will you please use it to see if the Mayans are right for the end of the...

I think that calling them Millennials dehumanizes them from the very beginning. Not everyone is exactly the same. Having said that, the idea that treating employees like people and not...

Steve Jones - SSC Editor (5/17/2011)

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True, though the difficulty is relative. Plumbing...

hlewis (5/17/2011)

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On bad days I call this multitasking, "juggling bowling balls" and it can be exhausting. At the end of an 8.5 hour day my brain is fried. ...

An interesting question and an odd way for NULL to act in the second statement. As others have said, it seems to be contrary to how NULL is otherwise treated.

There is more than one definition of "working hard". Early in my career I had to help keypunch cards. It wasn't hard work in that it wasn't difficult work. But,...

Soft skills are part of one's personality. Some people have soft skills in abundance and others are sorely lacking in them. I'm not sure that soft skills can be learned....

Steve Jones - SSC Editor (5/6/2011)

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Nakul Vachhrajani (5/6/2011)

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Here in India, we have a saying that if a restauranter does not eat in his/her own restaurant or if a building contractor...

Grant Fritchey (4/29/2011)

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I just talk about the information on a form, like a drivers license. It all gets stored somewhere and I'm the guy that manages the stuff that does...

You need both, Steve. A good backup AND a good resume. 🙂

Service Boker? 😀

Whoa Nelly! Hold the phone! Stop the presses!

Someone on SSC actually said something nice about developers!?!

Things are looking up! 😛

Thanks, Steve for all you and others do at SSC. However,...