You're absolutely correct TravisDBA.

Our last 'DBA' left after a nervous breakdown; I'm an accidental DBA.

But I'm only the DBA when the servers are on their knees, spilling ones and zeros...

At this large corporation, we have a Process Change system that we adhere to rather strictly for .net application development, at least in my smallish team (12) in a department...

Thanks Jim, this saved me a LOT of time and aggravation today.

Ken Stelter

La Porte Indiana; only an hour's drive away from Chicago for the best pizza in the country.

I work in Portage, right on the shoreline of Lake Michigan.

Ref: Receiving messages from a MSMQ queue.

I don't know if anyone is still interested, but we have this working...finally. The message placed on the queue needs to be a...

I think I'd like to build wood boats. Kayaks, canoes, rowboats, etc.

They tell me that I spend 59.28% ytd of my time on 'Discretionary Investment Work', which translates to 'actual useful work'. The target is 35% - 40%, so they fully...

Happy Birthday Steve! And to everyone else celebrating today, too!

At 51 I have all the toys I want, all I need is time to play with them!

My family is blessed...

Thanks, everybody! I just learned more than in the last 3 classes I took!

We're at SQL version 2000, installed with an industrial SCADA package called Wonderware. No one complains and...

Thanks Terry,

The log is set to auto grow by 10%.

All the maintenance plans ran 12 hours earlier than the last occurence.

I've reviewed all the scheduled jobs, none explicitly create any...

To make the stress go away, I run 2 miles, 3 times a week. Once or twice a week I make time to paddle my kayak for several hours. I...

It likely depends on how a given company values it data. A company that lives and dies on the data in it's database will likely place great value on hiring...

Steve,

In your editorial you stated:

"I had a great discussion on Diskeeper and SQL Server (I recommend don't run it) that ..."

Could you please elaborate on this? We run Diskeeper on...

Nice list indeed! Too bad my Big Company strictly forbids free downloads of any type. Rules are made by mainframe wenies in the home office somewhere across the country.

Nor are...