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  • RE: Out of the Frying Pan Into the Fire

    No one I know of "enjoys" walking into a firestorm. That said though, I have learned an enormous amount by doing so. Both, in further developing my overall skill set...

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

  • RE: Better Bosses Needed

    The worst boss I had went to jail and I am still proud today to say I helped put him there. 😀

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

  • RE: The DBA Database

    Yes, and it holds all the DBA stuff we need to do and house on a daily basis. Ours is called "DBA_MetaData". At the last place i worked it was...

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

  • RE: Better Bosses Needed

    Core6430 (7/30/2012)


    The worst bosses I've had (a good boss is extremely rare), were promoted because they talked the loudest, and bragged the hardest, and took credit for things that weren't...

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

  • RE: Leaving Some Headroom

    The memory limits are not for the buffer pool, but query memory. Important, but not the same thing.

    Good point Steve , it is query memory, and they are not 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"

  • RE: A Really Good Job

    jshahan (7/25/2012)


    The last 10 years of my work life have been far and away the most rewarding and the last three in particular have been almost too good to be...

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

  • RE: Leaving Some Headroom

    "I'm not sure how I'd want this to work on my SQL Servers. After all, any load I placed on them wouldn't necessarily just occupy CPU. It would also impact...

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

  • RE: A Really Good Job

    My dream job??? How about getting paid to sleep...But seriously, nowadays with the economy in the tank, a dream job is just having one. As of June 2012 (12.7 million...

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

  • RE: Leveling the Field

    :w00t:There are good things about smaller companies and not so good. It just depends on what you want out of the job. For example, here are some things below that...

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

  • RE: What to look for in an employer

    jbnv (7/24/2012)


    James Stover (7/24/2012)


    I always try to find out if I am filling a new position or one that someone has vacated. That 's the initial fork in the road...

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

  • RE: Security is Improving

    Miles Neale (7/23/2012)


    There is always someone wanting to steal or corrupt, and to keep our systems and other assets safe we must be more diligent.

    As long as there are some...

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

  • RE: What to look for in an employer

    Freddie-304292 (7/23/2012)


    I know it sounds minor, but good cycling facilities is a big one for me nowadays. It's become my main form of exercise and I wouldn't want 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"

  • RE: Stack Ranking

    Well said, I believe that this is tantamount to publishing everyone's salary in the lunchroom, that is how much havoc this causes within a team. But I can understand why...

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

  • RE: Stack Ranking

    I have, but some management just lives for that kind of stuff though.:-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"

  • RE: Stack Ranking

    stephen 27828 (7/20/2012)In my opinion, employee evaluation systems to should be an individual thing -- employees are placed in a job that has certain KPIs and expectations. Employees 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"

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