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  • RE: Working at Microsoft

    We've all read the stories about what it was like to work at major companies when they first started up. What would it have been like to work at Apple...

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  • RE: Mistake or #Fail

    Before becoming a developer, I was leaning towards network administration back in the days of Novell. The training back then was 'when you see this warning do this' and 'when...

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  • RE: What's Your Education Worth?

    I studied music in college. I was fortunate to be one of those 'artist types' whose artistic talents translated into machine awareness. I was self-taught for a long time, but...

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  • RE: A True SQL OS

    Question: How would this effect features of SQL Server which interact with other windows-dependent features such as CLR? I know we've had discussions on this forum as to whether SQL...

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  • RE: Loyalty Cards

    Robert,

    You know, it did occur to me that I could be getting the phone number of someone who got rid of it for them same reason I was getting rid...

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  • RE: Loyalty Cards

    Steve - right on.

    We just transferred our phone from the regional provider to our cable provider. I could have kept my old phone number, but decided to get a...

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  • RE: Take a Seat

    Remember when requesting your new chair to use the word 'ergonometric'. It's a good 25 cent word for 'scientifically designed to make you more productive at lesser cost'. That's not...

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  • RE: No Google

    One of my least favorite phrases is "It will never happen here". In the 1962 novel, "Fail-Safe", author Eugene Burdick speculated on what would happen if all of the people...

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  • RE: Music for DBAs

    IceDread (7/7/2009)

    A side note, there was a report in Sweden that studied classic and metal music.

    Sounds like interesting reading.

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  • RE: Music for DBAs

    Some years ago, I ran into an educational concept called 'learning styles'. It was a group of people attempting to catalogue the various ways that people take in information. You've...

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  • RE: Who's At Fault

    All I know is that is wasn't my fault...

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  • RE: Random problems

    Mike C.

    Thank you for your answer to a slightly lazy question - Yes, I should have simply run the query SELECT Rand() and pushed the start button several times and...

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  • RE: Random problems

    OK. I'll be the one to ask the dumb question:

    Most languages have a random function that does not require you to add seeds and/or do other things to make them...

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  • RE: Software Giants

    Good points, Steve. I think that one of the things we need to do as developers and admins is keep a file of ways to market ourselves. This is true...

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  • RE: Shaking the Money Tree

    Maybe it's a question of how large your company is. In the small companies I've seen, developers are expected to administrate. Admins are seen as unnecesary overhead. The same...

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