I'm not going to post specific equipment I use because so much is personal preference; but, I am surprised at how often my colleagues rob themselves of both productivity and...

This struck a different tone than your usual writing about career development. There is something to be said for it. I think the majority of us are trying to find...

Pedantically, I'm with Sam Bishop; I learned of "syntactic sugar" as having the definition in the Wikipedia article. So, being able to say "left OUTER join" or just "left join"...

skeleton567 (12/6/2016)

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Brian J. Parker (12/6/2016)

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There are, as you and several commenters note, a lot of factors; I wouldn't say that there was a universal best approach.

Generally, what I've done is...

There are, as you and several commenters note, a lot of factors; I wouldn't say that there was a universal best approach.

Generally, what I've done is introduce improvements at a...

Sorry to digress, but if...

Most weeks, I'm in the office two days and working from home three. It is the ideal balance for me; the pros and cons are largely as others describe. The...

g.britton (2/16/2016)

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The thing is, I've always found it necessary to have human eyes on the date table. Things change from year to year (even the start/end of a fiscal year...

MMartin1 (11/21/2015)

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Good concept and idea. I had implemented something similar. I am sure we have all seen the choose a month to report from . In these cases I instructions...

I just want to chime in with thanks for the great original idea, and everybody else with ideas to make it even better. I can imagine using this some day...

Eric M Russell (10/28/2015)

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Honestly, I hate healthcare IT, specifically healthcare data. The problem is that you have a lot of disparate vendors with proprietary and inconsistent data, who out of...

Steve Jones - SSC Editor (4/27/2009)

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Most security products I know are looking for tens of thousands of dollars. A little outrageous from my perspective because the risk isn't high to...

I used to work at a small software developer making software for behavioral...

Well played!

Although it might be worth mentioning here that you can script out login creation statements (with SID and password hash) to move logins from one server to another, which...

I found it really difficult to assemble a chart of versions like this for my own use. Thanks for thinking to share it. Mine is a much messier version that...