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  • RE: IT staff would rather pocket $100k than blast off into space

    Maybe there's a few DBA's, developers, executives and congressmen that have all the bills for years, medical expenses, the kids college funds and the mortgage paid off, etc, but I'm...

  • RE: Don't Criticize Code

    I'm critical of all code, my own above of all the rest. But when dealing with all code there are constructive ways to get the improvements accomplished. Mainly I do...

  • RE: The Good Job

    Pay? You actually get paid? :w00t:

    (Looks down at chains connecting him to the desk, just two hours till the next restroom break...)

  • RE: Give us all the features

    Not only is Microsoft driving developers toward OSS with server license costs and features restrictions, but the restrictions in various tiers of Visual Studio do the same. Smaller companies in...

  • RE: Why send a DBA into space?

    It's official. Redgate has now "Jumped the Shark". 😛

  • RE: The Countdown

    Bill Gates to pop out of Steve's birthday cake?

    Redgate going to support DB2?

    MVPs basejumping from the Space Needle?

    Madonna to become a DBA?

    "Indiana" Jones finds the Holy Connection String?

  • RE: The DR Test Schedule

    While I don't have the responsibility for these servers, we do have images of them, as well as regular backups, and I suspect we could recover them fairly quickly. Maybe...

  • RE: Staying High

    "It's hard to soar with the eagles at PASS, when you swim with the sewer rats in your current job." :crazy:

  • RE: Data Quality on the Open Web

    At work we have a quote about quality; "All data sucks, some data just sucks less."

    Just dealing with millions of name and addresses from hundreds of different systems, it's...

  • RE: Free as in Beer

    I've ran into this problem in the work environment in a more insidious way. Many moons ago when companies had VAXen running VMS, I created a nifty utility in DCL...

  • RE: Not on the Same Page

    Security is ultimately the responsibility of management. If they don't care or will not fund improvements/training, nothing will change.

  • RE: Piracy and Agile

    I was still reeling from the revelation that a New York psychologist had determined that 4% of managers were psychopaths,

    A good majority of the folks in political office and...

  • RE: A Look Back at Apple

    Apple products are higher-end consumer products and tailored for that market except for a few niches. Look over the last ten years of their history and notice that they really...

  • RE: Keeping Your Soul

    What if you could sell your soul, get away with it legally, but guarantee that your family would be wealthy/secure/powerful for decades/generations? Isn't that much of what has gone on...

  • RE: Benefits

    The US is fortunate because its sheer size means that there will always be a market capable of keeping its heartbeat going.

    The US is also screwed since income inequality is...

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