(First - a correction for AndyD... Holly is NOT the female computer in Red Dwarf - that is Hilly. Holly is the actor Norman Lovett, a male computer...

I don't think your editorial (like many I have seen along this topic line) is realistic. Sure, it would be great on Day One to "know" the size of...

"No matter where you choose to improve your skills, the important thing is to keep improving those skills. As long as you are a technology professional, you need to constantly...

Just a few years ago I got a phone call from a client I had not spoken to for over 18 years. Indeed, he was client of a company...

I suppose its my age and just having been in this business way too long, but I never thought I would work long enough, let alone live long enough, to...

In my relatively short life, we have gone from a nation of savers to a nation of "gotta have it now, and if I have it, spend it, and if...

I apologize in advance for my comments (a little bit), and mean no insult directly at any DBA but...

Do you ever take a moment and think about how many DBA's...

I'm not sure you can link the OpenSource movement to the economic downturn directly - though I believe there may be some connection. Microsoft themselves are, to some companies,...

Years ago one of the top mentors I ever worked for noticed that I would regularly be putting in 10 (or more) hours a day. I was young and...

"Visual Studio and development tools are different, and I know quite a few DBAs that are lost within those environments."

A DBA who does not know VS? That's a DBA?...

You can stop ALL Spam, and as well, all Phone Marketing calls... How? Easy...

Years ago a brilliant guy named Richard Chapparal filed a court case in California stating...

We used to be "Americans" - now we are "Republicans" and "Democrats". When I hear people say things like "I dont think the Democrats/Republicans can/will..." I just shiver...

Very good Shaun, very creative... but speaking as a manager, you missed two scenes... This earlier one...

Manager: I'm going to need a copy of your six month objectives,...

Thanks for a nice article on what appears to be a useful tool.

Over the last year we have been using SSIS to setup and run XML imports. We dont...

One thing I have seen in my years in the business is that some companies don't really understand what a DBA is and why they need one. They hear...