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  • RE: Exit Lines

    GilaMonster (6/26/2015)


    The 'exit' statement that I made when I left the bank (after 4 years of working there and ~2 weeks of being intermittently belittled and insulted by some of...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: Exit Lines

    Jeff Moden (6/26/2015)


    David.Poole (6/26/2015)


    I know someone who was disappointed to get a Survey Monkey exit interview. The gist of the survey was as to whether the company was good,...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: 70-458 == butt kicked (again)

    My background is more DevOps, thinking back to the 2012 exams, it was the installation and disaster recovery related questions are what I struggle with, especially replication and mirroring (bleh!)....

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: Exit Lines

    David.Poole (6/26/2015)


    I know someone who was disappointed to get a Survey Monkey exit interview. The gist of the survey was as to whether the company was good, outstanding or...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: Skill Supply and Demand

    You can find equal numbers of SQL Server versus Oracle developers, and the same goes for C# versus Java developers. Also in terms of features they are similar. However, the...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: The Rename Game

    I do occasionally rename variables, temp tables and such when refactoring a stored procedure. So long as the input / output parameters and resultset columns don't change, then this type...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: Exit Lines

    Delivering pithy parting words, other than the standard goodbye and contact info, in an email is a bad idea, even if you send it to a handful of trusted coworkers....

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: Sweat Files and Practice Projects

    I agree that those of us in IT development need to train on new technologies and work through sample problems for much the same reason that firefighters train for disasters...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: More Regulation Coming?

    Iwas Bornready (6/25/2015)


    It's funny reading this old article now in 2015. This problem is never going away.

    When it comes to IT security policies; it certainly does seem that the government...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: More Regulation Coming?

    chrisn-585491 (6/17/2015)


    First: The government has been captured by the very corporations it's supposed to regulate.

    Second: The IT management in the public sector is equally incompetent.

    Third: The programming...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: Today's Random Word!

    Crap, I left for vacation and forgot to unsubscribe from this topic, so now my inbox is full.

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: Sweat Files and Practice Projects

    In the real world, IT development isn't like a gourmet chef following a tried and true recipe; many times it more resembles a police detective investigating a twisted crime where...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: Sweat Files and Practice Projects

    I wish we had more sweat files in the form of learning projects. A place where you could download a document describing the problem, scripts to set up any needed...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: Sql Server Core vs Full blown version of SQL Server

    Welsh Corgi (6/12/2015)


    I got my way. Server Core is out.

    Maybe installing SQL Server on a Windows Core server is a good idea. Like you said, it reduces the surface area...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

  • RE: Using EXCEPT

    When comparing two relatively small resultsets, I usually copy / paste both into separate tabs in a text comparison tool like WinMerge. If sorted the same, the tool will line...

    "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

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