I'm going with the DBA answer... it depends.

Microsoft showing us how well mirroring works, I want a live demo, crashes & all. If it's really going to slice, dice...

I occured to me that I have at least one anecdotal story that may point to  how the editorial  policy may be applied. I wrote an article for Simple Talk...

As to how independent should you be, how independent can you be. I'm not talking about Red Gate, I'm talking about Microsoft. Personally, where Microsoft leads, I follow. Not because...

Go here, read.

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/columnists/pressrelease/2696.asp

I agree that it was overall a pretty lame presentation. I also thought the questions were silly considering the audience. Seriously, at PASS, who cares about Linux? However, I want...

I'm working for an international company. All the databases we've created in the last five years have been using unicode to support the languages we'll need in the system. There...

Absolute best wishes for the future guys. You've done extremely well with this place. It's become a go-to point for my own growth & knowledge.

I have to say I'm sorry...

Late to the game and it's a story I've told before, but, it was a heck of a nightmare.

I was working for a start-up that had a bunch of Harvard...

TRUNCATE LOG ON CHOICEPOINT

Ok, sorry, couldn't resist.

Same thing we do. As someone else said, you can't expect someone to have every aspect of the details of your own development & design process down walking in from...

Confession first, rant second. I put a single lie on my resume once about 12 years ago. I got caught and lost a great job because of it. Ever since...

We actually tracked down the solution to this, you have to have the latest & greatest Oracle OLEDB driver. Anything less & you get errors either in the size of...

We had climbed into bed with Quest (a bed we're getting out of now) and I tried Toad. What a horrifying experience that was. I can't believe anyone actually uses...

Yeah, I forgot about ER/Studio. We live in that tool quite a lot too.

I'm pretty fortunate to work somewhere that has a large enough budget that we get quite a few tools. However, the ones that large numbers of us go to on...