My own experience fits your story pretty well.  Early in my career the job changes, whether within the company or from one company to another, were all about increased compensation. ...

Let's say you treat your workspace like you treat your database.  Would you leave your used napkins all over your desk, food wrappers stuffed in your drawers, food crumbs (and...

When you mentioned over source control systems than Git, it reminded me at one of my early employers (can't remember which) we used to use MS Visual SourceSafe.  That is...

When I started my current gig a couple years ago, I was given a couple of crazy procs to manage.  They both have WAY too much flow logic; variables that...

I also got my degree in Math, with a minor in Economics.  My first job out of college was working for a bank on the mortgage rate sheet team.  In...

I'm not sure I can come up with three, but my top two are both dealing with other people.  First would be Managed Service Providers.  Let's take a basic task,...

I'm curious how many DBAs here actually have a say in cloud vs on-prem.  My previous company was a fortune 500 and I was on a team of DBAs.  The...

I was able to figure it out by seeing a support thread where someone else had asked a similar question.  The issue wasn't the tables, it was that I had...

I am attempting the same pattern, but pulling from on-prem SQL tables and inserting into Tables instead of Files in the LakeHouse.  Thank you for sharing everything you have, it...

I've only ever used 2 monitors, but it'd be interesting to try adding a third.  I'm guessing it would be marginally more productive.

I've never attempted any certifications and I've never missed out on a job because of it.  I don't see the value, but as a learning tool it is probably ok.

Teams might be close in some places I've worked, but the entire company at JD Edwards felt like a family of people who were working together.

I'm not a fan of...

Family vacations happen at various times during various years.

I always take time at the end of October and early November to bow hunt the rut.

Each time I've decided to move on, it's been a pretty long search (maybe 6 months average) to find a new job.  It makes me quite nervous about having to...

The examples you cited, Equifax and Solarwinds, are both very large companies.  There are probably several levels of management between the CEO and the analyst or intern responsible for the...