Revenant (2/17/2012)

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If you watch TV commercials, you may notice that the best salesmen are cute kids, dogs, and cats, in this order. No experience necessary.

Draw your own conclusions, DBAs....

I would certainly say that as a developer I will do almost anything to avoid failure - I just simply do not accept failure for projects I am working on...

I do think that good developers and technical staff are harder to replace. You don't need exceptional specific knowledge to do sales. There are so many fields where within 6...

I liked this question - partially at least because I could recall the answer from double checking the answer to the last truncate question.

Small company here < 15 employees. No formal process at all. Change is managed (minimally) though and would take one of two forms depending on the project:

- Incrementing versions married...

Hand up, I did not know about it. I can definitely see uses for this OUTPUT thingy though - cheers.

sandippani (2/1/2012)

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According to me you all are right . I posted this question with 4 options i.e. 1,2,3 and 5. The option 4 was not added by me. The site...

Pen and paper all the way - like all good chicken scratch it usually expires after 24 hours, and has no hope of being deciphered ever again, so I'd best...

I like the idea but then I don't (sorry to be contrary). I agree that it would be handy to have a real, reliable feeling of how people are thinking...

It was a bit fiddly but then in my experience that is the case when dealing with xml, especially in SQL.

Harsh but fair IceDread, harsh but fair.

My personal regime is to insist that I must get (very) sweaty at least once a day in the working week (cycle commute, 5...

Yeah right Steve, I can see my bosses face when I ask him for funding to go to Vegas :laugh: admittedly I am UK based. I have carefully nurtured him...

Hmm, I hope it's not wrong as I interpreted the answers to be A and C

I am at least moderately heartened by the general philanthropy of the great tech businessmen, Larry Ellison I believe is also pretty good, and it is certainly something you have...

hoekma (1/9/2012)

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Ok, I have to be the first one to throw a monkey wrench into the conversation. For full disclosure, I'm not a fulltime DBA. I work in...