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  • RE: Going Solo

    Unforutantley, the jobs in the Milwaukee, WI area for solo consultants pay about $35-$45/hr for someone with .NET and/or SQL skills. A corporate 40-45 hr/week job with benefits...

  • RE: How do you learn the advanced stuff?

    In 12 years,(working for a 200 people IT company, and then a 4000 employee non-profit company) there's one thing I've learned. When you die, the last thing you will...

  • RE: The Apprentice

    The best developers I know were, to be blunt, just born with it. Yes, they had to learn the syntax, but they seem to know the answers without ever...

  • RE: 10 Bad Things About Reporting Services 2008 R2

    SSRS SQL 2008 and 2008 R2 is unforunatley unusable to us, so we are stuck with SSRS 2005. We need the ability to autoprint reports(in PDF, works in other...

  • RE: Where Do You Park?

    I park in one of the 50 open parking spaces that are 30 seconds from the entry door. My wife parks her car in the driveway at home, since...

  • RE: How Far Will You Go (To Work)?

    25-35 minute highway drive from my lake home to north Milwaukee(my only home, unlike my neighbors who have other lake homes). Was supossed to be a 20 min side...

  • RE: It’s Good to Eat Alone

    Our group of 15 people in IT just eat at our desks. When I lived 5 minutes from home 5 years ago, I would go home to play WoW....

  • RE: DRI or No DRI?

    In over 10 years I have never found a reason to use DRI, and I probably never will. I have never had 1 single problem without using it. However...

  • RE: Sabbaticals

    No, and I don't know anyone who works for a company that does.

    Where do I sign up?

  • RE: SQL DBAdmin toolbox - Part 2: Verify all databases in the enterprise

    From my experience, at bigger organizations such as hospitals, it is the system administrators that are responsible for backups. Just like they are responsibile for all backups...Outlook, file shares. To...

  • RE: Why Can't We Code?

    When I was looking for a job, I found technical tests and interviews to be quite worthless to be honest. They would ask about term definitions that you never...

  • RE: A Note to My Fellow Application Developers about Knowing Our Limits

    Ya, I had to get out of being a jack-of-all trades. It was great to learn a bunch of different stuff of course, but the problem was, I learned...

  • RE: Negotiating Your Raise Before Your Annual Review

    At my last job, instead of waiting for a decent raise(which I would only get when I told them I was looking for a new job(2 times, 3rd time I...

  • RE: Competing with an MBA

    MBA and experience are good, but there is one thing that matters the most by far: Being in the right place at the right time. With that said,...

  • RE: Will You Become a Master?

    Agreed, I won't become a Master. Besides already spending a good amount of time on SQL related activities and code, there is much SharePoint, Access, Excel, .NET 2.0, 3.0,...

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