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  • RE: Grace Under Pressure

    Peter Schott (12/10/2012)

    Never understood what they thought they'd get out of standing over his shoulder when they likely didn't even know what he was doing in the first place.

    Peter, it's...

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

    December 10, 2012 at 12:53 pm

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  • RE: What Counts for a DBA: Being Replaceable

    Mike Dougherty-384281 (12/8/2012)

    Another good reason to be replaceable is that you should be able to "hand off" to a coworker so you can advance within the organization. If you've...

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

    December 10, 2012 at 12:31 pm

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  • RE: What Counts for a DBA: Being Replaceable

    The only DBA's, or even developers for that matter, in the companies I have had experience with in the past that have become "irreplaceable' is because the company let them...

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

    December 10, 2012 at 10:39 am

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  • RE: Grace Under Pressure

    I agree most definitely with practice, practice,practice. However, with most Disaster Recovery scenarios I have had experience with in the last 20 years, the actual event never goes as planned...

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

    December 10, 2012 at 10:22 am

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  • RE: Keynotes

    Steve,

    Love him or hate him (and sometimes I do) I do have to agree that Bill Gates is one great speaker. One of my favorites, is his "11 rules 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"

    December 7, 2012 at 7:54 am

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  • RE: Try To Be More Inefficient

    Personally, while I think it is definitely beneficial to be "cordial" to the people you work with, I would not go so far as to say that you need to...

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

    December 6, 2012 at 11:27 am

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  • RE: Try To Be More Inefficient

    majorbloodnock (12/6/2012)

    As we all know, there's a big difference between being efficient and being effective.

    Yes there is. In the immortal words of Peter Drucker:

    "Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness...

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

    December 6, 2012 at 10:48 am

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  • RE: Type A, B, or C

    Miles Neale (12/5/2012)

    Did I read the article right? If you have an employee who does a good job, is somewhat driven to get the job done but sees value...

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

    December 5, 2012 at 10:54 am

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  • RE: Type A, B, or C

    majorbloodnock (2/26/2008)

    And this is one of the reasons I tend to distrust some psychological techniques.

    Certainly there can be defining characteristics to someone, but shoehorning people into compartments to try to...

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

    December 5, 2012 at 7:44 am

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  • RE: Feedback is Encouraged

    chrisn-585491 (12/3/2012)

    After seeing the mess that is the Windows 8 interface, plus all the changes to management tools, the multiple changes in the Office interfaces, I'm not sure that Microsoft...

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

    December 3, 2012 at 10:29 am

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  • RE: Backup All Databases

    If you are going to backup all the user databases on a database server, why not just use a Maintenance Plan? Simple to do.:-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"

    November 30, 2012 at 10:58 am

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  • RE: Staging Deployments

    OCTom (11/30/2012)

    For me, the database and code changes occur simultaneously. I don't recall haing a database change not affect applications in some way. Some database changes such as adding new...

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

    November 30, 2012 at 8:25 am

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  • RE: Regulators, Mount Up

    John Hanrahan (11/28/2012)

    It has been 15 years since I have gotten a gov contract. I suppose you are going to tell me it is really that bad. 😀

    Yes,...

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

    November 29, 2012 at 2:18 pm

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  • RE: Don't Explain Too Much

    David.Poole (11/29/2012)

    Too much detail dilutes management effectiveness.

    If you are a detail person and a manager then it is too easy to get sucked into detailed technical debates rather than stepping...

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

    November 29, 2012 at 9:57 am

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  • RE: Don't Explain Too Much

    Hiza,

    Just remember to not let these kinds of things get you upset. Managment many times asks dumb questions. It does not mean they are dumb. Just misinformed. There's no such...

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

    November 29, 2012 at 8:56 am

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