Whatever your situation is, perhaps it is related to execution plan recompiling. Execution plan reuse matters in an OLTP database where the same procedure is called 1000s of times per...

Benefits are negotiable? Does anyone here work...

Steve Jones - SSC Editor (9/23/2013)

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Your assumptions ignore the fact that often IT groups find new opportunities, and can do so when more time is available. As IT operations improve,...

Steve Jones - SSC Editor (9/23/2013)

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OCTom (9/19/2013)

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I don't know about this. Although I can offer only my perspective, from what I have seen in my 30 years in I.T., there...

Some news reports describe that Edward Snowden as a SharePoint administrator whose job was to post classified documents and move them around into protected folders. That is something that could...

In the wake of Edward Snowden, the NSA is obviously going to shake up things internally. I'm surpised they would outsource administrative positions to contractors. Quite frankly, that was a...

Gary Varga (9/10/2013)

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Read the editorial. Read a few of the posts. Seems that simply we are, as a collective, astounded at the attitude of the minority.

As for support groups, I...

Regarding how I would solve hunger, it's interesting how the problem has been defined or presented. For example, the US Department of Agriculture released a study in 2012 stating that...

OCTom (9/6/2013)

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I was once asked how I would end workd hunger. My answer both appalled and intrigued the interviewers. I said to kill all of the hungry people. If there...

Occasionally I participate in technical interviews, if the candidate is applying for a database related position. I don't ask pop questions like "What is DDL?" or "What is a clustered...

wojzeh (9/5/2013)

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Eric M Russell (9/5/2013)

What's weird is that they called me back several weeks later and wanted to offer me a job.

I declined. So damn weird; I...

wojzeh (9/5/2013)

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Hi Steve! Thank you for this topic!

You said "My interviews have often been very technical, but have included a number of "how would you.." or "tell me about a...

On a slow day, when we're not on a coding sprint or...

TravisDBA (9/3/2013)

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Eric M Russell (9/3/2013)

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TravisDBA (9/3/2013)

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Probably not, but then again you could fill a book...

TravisDBA (9/3/2013)

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Probably not, but then again you could fill a book up with all the...