ken.trock (7/16/2010)

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Our group got a new manager at the turn of 2010. He's was already a managing a group of developers in our company but none of us knew him.

So...

Question Guy (7/16/2010)

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There's companies that hire tech or DBA's to be manager's or boss's? Wow, from what I've seen, rarely does a manager have technical skills, and certainly not...

Expecting an industrial strength DBMS like SQL Server to simplify down to the level of something like a "Desktop" database like MS-Access, that was never intended to be more than...

This has always been one of my favorite quotes on knowledge sharing, and it is so, so true too. I have it hung on my refrigerator and see it every...

The "Peter Principal" by Dr. Lawrence J. Peter should be required reading for anyone being promoted from a technical position to management in any industry. 😀

Private clouds require considerable upfront investment in both hardware and software, so they are not a good choice for small and medium sized companies operating currently under tight budgets in...

Keeping production database servers with hiundreds, sometimes thousands of databases up 24/7 365 days a year is not even close to the same as the service electrical or water companies...

Alan Vogan (7/9/2010)

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I've read alot of these posts and they seem to be directed at the user always making assumptions. So here is a great assumption twist for you; Assume...

They get a bad rap for good reason because there is usually an expensive cost associated...

The number one assumption that I have to overcome and explain almost everyday to CIOs,Managers, developers, project managers, help desk, business analysts and end users is:

"When you get an error...

True, but in many jobs, particularly with IT managers, this tends to be more becauue of the Peter Principle than...

So I spend the first week reading up on the database, then find myself receiving troubleshooting emails. So I ask my co-worker (the only other DBA team on the team)...

IT shops are very political and full of a lot of tight little cliques I have personally found in my 20+ years experience. I have seen people throw other people...

Nadrek (7/7/2010)

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jay holovacs (7/7/2010)

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TravisDBA (7/6/2010)

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Thanks, but I already know about backing up a encrypted database with compression has no effect on the compression, and that is in BOL, hence my...

Unfortunately, kids coming out of school today do not want to pay their dues as most of us had to do back in the day. They want to make...