Neil,

You know what I've heard a lot of recently? CISSP certified security people are in high demand right now.

Granted, it's a hard cert to study for and get....

Neil,

You know what I've heard a lot of recently? CISSP certified security people are in high demand right now.

Granted, it's a hard cert to study for and get....

It's a big month for me.  After 21 years, I'm being made redundant on the 28th when we finally hand over our contract to another company.  I started at...

The reason I can think about the posts are because of may Accidental DBAs who are forced to do the DBA job who are Developers, Network admins, I...

Gosh... thanks for the very kind words but I'm far from...

• This reply was modified 2 years, 5 months ago by Lynn Pettis.

I'm in for another season!

The first time I saw that, I kind of fell out of my chair.  I think...

And you now have COBOL in the .NET world, so it is evolving.

Having supported a COBOL application for over 10 years, COBOL is a good language. Yes, it is wordy compared to modern programming languages, but that doesn't...

Having supported a COBOL application for over 10 years, COBOL is a good language. Yes, it is wordy compared to modern programming languages, but that doesn't mean it isn't good....

Jeff Moden I did try to outline that in context. I was saying I have actually seen this before with a dynotopic prehistoric language (aka Cobol) where the powers...

I love the knee-brace analogy.

I don't like the idea of an automatic code debugger.  It would be misused in the same fashion.  A lot of people are just too...

• This reply was modified 2 years, 10 months ago by Lynn Pettis.
• This reply was modified 2 years, 10 months ago by Lynn Pettis.

I absolutely agree that it may not "be the listener" at fault... especially after seeing so many different "speakers".  I definitely believe we're on the same page in that...

• This reply was modified 2 years, 10 months ago by Lynn Pettis.

Not dropping temp tables at the end of stored procedures is one of the pre-requisites to take advantage of the tempdb improvements made to limit metadata...

Not dropping temp tables at the end of stored procedures is one of the pre-requisites to take advantage of the tempdb improvements made to limit metadata contention in...