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I recommend that you read "5 dysfunctions of teams" which covers the topic of honesty, trust, ego, results and conflict.
When I was a lead DBA I always gave my code...
August 10, 2012 at 1:29 am
My supervisor told me "I can find anyone to do your job." when I asked for a promotion.
Anyone who has had to be part of the recruitment process knows...
August 2, 2012 at 4:12 pm
So SET STATISTICS TIME ON is the sames as WATCH SCHRODINGERS CAT:hehe:
I learnt something from this article.
Note that STATISTICS TIME ON reports the execution time and the CPU time where...
August 1, 2012 at 3:55 pm
I've had many bosses, good and bad, over the years and with only one exception they were people I would not object to spending an evening in their company.
The bad...
August 1, 2012 at 12:08 pm
What is interesting is reading the LinkedIn profile of previous "bad" managers. Their perception of themselves appears radically different from the way their underlings remember them.
Has anyone suggested to...
July 31, 2012 at 12:57 pm
BTW, did you mean that solutions like FastTrack work in "symphony" with hardware, not "sympathy" ??
Br, Mark Kromer
Sorry, a Freudian slip. Though having seen FastTrack perform its worth a...
July 24, 2012 at 10:00 am
RobertYoung (7/16/2012)
Missing, not for the first time in such essays, is discussion of normal forms,
Would I be correct in thinking this translates as "design your OLTP database properly and you...
July 16, 2012 at 4:30 pm
I have to say that I find the ability to resync my Kindle invaluable. Most of the stuff I want to do in the cloud is light-weight consumer stuff...
July 8, 2012 at 10:27 am
Although I started out as an Analyst/Programmer on an HP3000 mini-computer my route to becoming a DBA started when I joined a B2B direct mail house.
As someone with Aspergers the...
July 8, 2012 at 10:24 am
The cloud will eventually mature.
At present I think of it as Pay-As-You-Go computing. If you have a facility that you need regularly or occassionaly but not all the time...
July 5, 2012 at 1:41 am
I wonder if The Royal Bank of Scotland have re-evalutated any of their IT capabilities recently
:hehe:
July 1, 2012 at 3:53 am
Desperately important AFTER an incident occurs that involves lack of availability.
June 29, 2012 at 1:29 am
The wheel turns again.
It seems we are moving back towards pay-as-you-go computing.
I quite like the idea of "try before you buy". For developers the ability to spin up server...
June 29, 2012 at 1:24 am
Sounds reasonable in theory but there are some undocumented commands that have been around since the year dot. sp_msforeachdb being a case in point.
Perhaps in the old days not...
June 26, 2012 at 8:34 am
This is one thing that needs very careful legislation and the mother of all big sticks to enforce it.
What happens if a Google or Amazon moves into your market place?...
June 4, 2012 at 3:05 am
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