Miles, that's interesting, I'll think on it.

I like the point about dream jobs only being that for a while - we grow and we change and suddenly the dream has been lived, now what? Do we...

Gary, nightmare is an interesting take. Do you think people are quicker to bail on a bad job than they are to dream about the great job? Or we just...

Tom, I agree that jobs finance the rest of life. Given how much time we spend at work isn't it worth trying to optimize the work/environment some? What if that...

I like the idea of defaulting to tempdb. I've always used master, agree with not using any real db as a default.

Bill, that's really interesting and a nice approach.

Thanks to everyone that commented, there is lots of good stuff there for me to think about and a fascinating look at cultures...

I'm hoping security will be tougher if top secret stuff going on!

Nice write up Stan!

Miles, it's nice to hear a good story to balance us out - not every interview/date goes bad:-)

The analogy to the police interview is sometimes all too apt. Yet I think the coffee talk is too far the other way in most cases. It's hard to get...

Eric, what is negotiable varies by company. Sometimes there is room to talk on salary. Insurance and 401k rarely. Time off, it depends - getting extra paid days is hard,...

Josh, a nice take on the complexities of dealing with DBA's - I'd like to see you write the corollary for dealing with developers!

Edward, I'm not sure I follow on the velocity calculation - it looks like you're only measuring new rows and not changes to existing rows?

David, nice walk through. I've never fully adopted test first, but I don't code every day either, perhaps making it harder to build a new habit. I'm more likely to...

Stan, kudos for both figuring it out on your own and filling a void on the how-to side, that's the best part of the SQL Server community. I also get...