In the situation I spoke of earlier, this was someone trying to tell me that if my bold idea of using object oriented development techniques on our current project had...

So my entire career to this point has been "promotion by vacuum." I've done some gratifying things in the past decade or so, but I really feel like it's...

ronmoses (6/1/2012)

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I took c to be "miserable in my job, and I'd take a greeter's job at Walmart if they'd pay me enough to cover my mortgage." I'm in...

LadyRuna (5/31/2012)

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I believe the rule regarding indexes (clustered or not) is the infamous "It Depends".... because your choice of indexing style really does depend upon how you're planning to access...

Dean,

Misunderstanding and mistrust of "everything" is widespread nowadays anyway. Database structure doesn't have the corner on this. Hmmmm. I'm still not sure what the point is. In my shop for...

Tons and tons of developers and plenty of DBAs still believe in not hooking yourself to a single vendor. I interviewed someone just a little over a year ago who...

I'm a little confused...

When the economy is slow and jobs less plentiful and the future is in doubt (like now) you can get away with paying good people less than what they are...

Now that is one powerful statement there. It makes all the...

Jcrawf02,

I also agree, business processes usually do precede technology. Now that said, technology can act as an accelerator to the process. 😀

My signature says it all about technology.:-D

Not sure why it is called "Happy".:-D

There are five main "Red Flag" questions I ask an interviewer when I am interviewing:

1. Do you give developers here sysadmin access to your production environments? If they answer Yes...

Yes, maybe a year or so later when he/she has run through all his/her savings and unemployment...

Indispensable equals risk, and companies don't like that, so will attempt to reduce the risk so it's manageable. If that means reducing their capabilities in the process, well that's...