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  • RE: Why SQL Server?

    As Jonathan Kehayias likes to calls it, i was an "Accidental DBA". I started the role years ago part-time filling a void for someone who left, and it quickly grew...

    "Technology is a weird thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other. ...:-D"

    March 1, 2013 at 10:01 am

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  • RE: Look Beyond the First Result

    John Hanrahan (2/27/2013)

    David,

    I like your logic. Though I am pretty sure we did not make a profit on GM. AIG though we did well. All I can...

    "Technology is a weird thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other. ...:-D"

    February 27, 2013 at 9:44 am

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  • RE: The Microsoft Sideshow

    chuckboycejr (2/27/2013)

    It's conventional wisdom and an accepted practice at a lot of shops that to install a Microsoft product before SP1 is foolish for production. Anyone who installs an...

    "Technology is a weird thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other. ...:-D"

    February 27, 2013 at 9:06 am

    #1591598

  • RE: Look Beyond the First Result

    DavidBrown-731687 (2/26/2013)

    If you say, "Well that's just the way things are," then they have won. I'm not ready to give up that fight quite yet. And neither should...

    "Technology is a weird thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other. ...:-D"

    February 26, 2013 at 9:51 am

    #1591251

  • RE: Look Beyond the First Result

    DavidBrown-731687 (2/26/2013)

    You can claim that consumers themselves are to blame for being fooled, but if we are honest, we have to admit that consumers are not always told the truth,...

    "Technology is a weird thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other. ...:-D"

    February 26, 2013 at 8:17 am

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  • RE: Look Beyond the First Result

    You might resent it, but the fact is most affluent people are viewed by everyone else as having deeper pockets. So, they tend to be a target for stuff...

    "Technology is a weird thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other. ...:-D"

    February 26, 2013 at 7:43 am

    #1591190

  • RE: Early Software

    pdanes (2/22/2013)

    It's not obsolete if it still does the job it was designed to do. I've written my share of FORTRAN, RPG, COBOL and who knows what else over the...

    "Technology is a weird thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other. ...:-D"

    February 25, 2013 at 11:01 am

    #1590893

  • RE: The Dark Side

    David.Poole (2/25/2013)

    Oracle DBAs tend to be at the upper end of the DBA scale in much the same way as C/C++ programmers tend to be at the higher end of...

    "Technology is a weird thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other. ...:-D"

    February 25, 2013 at 7:49 am

    #1590811

  • RE: Impressive Accomplishments

    Gary Varga (2/22/2013)

    Surely some of the responsibility is on the author's own integrity. After all suggesting that someone focusses on the positives and leaves out the less positives (or...

    "Technology is a weird thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other. ...:-D"

    February 22, 2013 at 9:49 am

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  • RE: Fix the Little Things

    Mark Dawson (2/22/2013)

    Hi Steve,

    The link you posted in the article appears to be broken.

    He will fix it as soon as he gets backs from picking up after his horses.:-D

    "Technology is a weird thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other. ...:-D"

    February 22, 2013 at 8:30 am

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  • RE: Impressive Accomplishments

    I have read so many articles in the past on writing a great resume and not one of them, and I do mean not one of them, mentions anything about...

    "Technology is a weird thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other. ...:-D"

    February 21, 2013 at 9:19 am

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  • RE: Life is Like a Manure Spreader

    I think a bit of perspective is due here. Try not to take life too seriously guys, or let stuff like this rent too much space in your head. Bottom...

    "Technology is a weird thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other. ...:-D"

    February 20, 2013 at 1:55 pm

    #1589726

  • RE: Are Triggers a "legacy" Feature? (Database Weekly, Nov 08 2008)

    GilaMonster (11/8/2008)

    Triggers have uses, but I'm not sure that business logic is a good one.

    For me, auditing is the main use. In 2008 Change data capture and change data tracking...

    "Technology is a weird thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other. ...:-D"

    February 19, 2013 at 9:19 am

    #1589261

  • RE: Practicing Deployments

    djackson 22568 (2/18/2013)

    Part of the issue here is that companies are always trying to do more with less. Increasing the profit margin by reducing staff can only go so...

    "Technology is a weird thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other. ...:-D"

    February 18, 2013 at 1:40 pm

    #1588955

  • RE: Impressive Accomplishments

    Gary Varga (2/18/2013)

    TravisDBA (2/18/2013)

    You can't reallistically farm out long-term IT technical support to outside contractors without it costing a bunch of money the government claims it doesn't have nowadays. IT...

    "Technology is a weird thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other. ...:-D"

    February 18, 2013 at 8:20 am

    #1588874

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