First, what is techncial debt? I hadn't heard that term before.

Second, I was unit testing before what I was doing was called unit testing. It only makes sense to do...

Donating blood is easy, painless (except for the needle ;-)), and a nice thing to do. And, you get free juice and cookies. What could be ebtter than that. Before...

Thanks for the memories. A time when storage and memory was rare and expensive and you had to really know how the guts of the operating system, disk system, and...

Thanks for this timely article. I volunteered to invetigate Azure for my organization and this article will definitely aid that.

I doubt that all of our databases will be in the...

I think the quesiton could have been worded better. Something like "What are the valid values that can be returned by IS_MEMBER?"

The question implied or I inferred that we had...

Many employment ads will list terms such as self-starter but they will also list that you must be able to work in a team. One who is really a self-starter...

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Loner (10/9/2009)

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This is so true...

blandry (10/7/2009)

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I cant speak directly for DBAs, but as a developer for many years I always responded to people the same way when they used to ask what I did...

I agree with that. I thought...

A suggestion for future questions. Maybe not all questions need sample code. A simple question such as "Can you use the FROM clause in a T-SQL update statement?" would have...

At the very least, they are spelled differently. 😎

Nice article. I'm involved in setting up an agile users group my area. The interest is pretty big. I'm just wondering if this will be the latest "flavor of the...

There's a lot to being a mentor. I've mentored before on the IBM midrange platforms. It takes a lot of time and effort. I spent many hours after work mentoring....

A paid "trial" period, AKA probation, has been the one constant in my career. Every place I've worked as an employee has had a probationary period of at least 3...

My question is why would you not want us to learn something by using BOL?