Well one advantage I'll have attending Summit in November on my dime...

I can ignore any incoming calls on my phone from the office!  TECHNICALLY I'll be on "vacation"  LoL

/me raises hand

Yep, similar situation here.  I went from working at a small company with a rather broad set of responsibilities, to a gov job that...

So the wife and I had a discussion and, presuming my employer declines to pay for me to go to Summit in November, we're going to pay out of pocket.

My...

I've enjoyed the conferences (SQL Saturday when there were ones more local, a couple Redgate events in Chicago, and one shining, glorious trip to Summit in Seattle last year) I've...

Yeah, the camping trip this past weekend was a nice get-away.  Took my Jeep off roading near the campground, spent a fair bit of time just loafing in a lounger...

I'm in a similar boat as Doctor Who 2, except I'm FedGov.  I could probably ask about getting a raise, but I'm 98% sure it'd be a case of "we...

Hoo boy, I need to stop joking about living in "interesting times."

We're a small team, 8 people (as of right now, keep reading,) we had 9 (one guy got moved...

I have seen the IT profession fragment from a discipline into many disciplines, each with its own interface point, allowing us to proceed in ignorance of that discipline's inner workings. ...

At this point I take any "AI is going to take ALL the jobs" sort of headlines with a very, very large grain of salt.  Typically such articles seem to...

So much out there relies on video and audio. As a deaf person, this is a whole world I struggle to interact with.

As an experiment, turn the sound off...

Jo, we're going camping that weekend, oh yes!  We already cancelled our planned trip this weekend, because of the likely weather (rain, so much rain)

You know what's annoying?

When you've got a family camping trip planned, but there's also a SQL event that weekend that finally put up the schedule and has several topics you...

See, this is why I always (usually LoL) skim the directions for something before getting started!

It's amazing, though, how enough "little frustrations" can quickly add up to becoming a "I...

Oh...

Been there, done that, didn't get the t-shirt...

My run-in with "filling big shoes" came not long into my current position, I was hired as an MS SQL Server DBA, to...