One of my managers always volunteered to keep the minutes, that way his points were always recorded and inevitably signed off.

There's clearly an art to running a meeting and there's...

@steve-2, I'm pretty sure that you started using the pubs database much earlier than SQL2014. I suspect that you used it pre-SQL Server 6.x.

I liked the way that Adventureworks...

Many a true word said in jest, Jeff. I should change the picture.

It's my mid-life crisis purchase as I couldn't afford a meno-porsche. I wrote it off and...

There's a presentation that demonstrates that you may as well not bother with an IT degree because the pace of change is so fast that by year 4 what you...

In 30 years I've only worked for one company that didn't provide coffee. My 1st place we had a rota to go down to the wholesalers for a catering...

Obviously I agree on the racial...

Experience trumps education

Achievements trumps Experience.

My heart sinks when I read "Responsible for". It doesn't say whether you were hands on, whether you achieved something or whether you just...

Wonderful idea, pure common-sense. Will never work. You face the devil's own job to get a people in the same company to sit in a room and come...

Face to face is extremely effective because the communication is verbal and visual and a true dialogue.

Written communication gives the opportunity to think before acting but requires a great deal...

I think the point is that diversity should not be blocked. I wouldn't put diversity at the forefront of a selection process. I'm not comfortable with it being even...

I haven't seen bad things with proc recompiles since the SQL2000 days. Every generation of SQLSERVER advances a little bit more rendering old hard won knowledge and techniques obsolete...

If you turn up to an interview as Britain's worst presented compost heap then more fool you. You don't know who you are going to meet, whether visitors to...

Some time ago I saw an article where the author had noticed a problem with a query where the principle condition was WHERE OrderDate BETWEEN @StartDate AND @EndDate.

The problem that...

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Mr Strange

I appreciate the information but it also would be helpful to list title/ISBN of Itzik Ben Gan book that you are referring...

Makes for uncomfortable reading but the truth will ouch