No, you're right. He didn't. And it probably wasn't my best...

TravisDBA (5/1/2013)

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majorbloodnock (5/1/2013)

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TravisDBA (5/1/2013)

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majorbloodnock (5/1/2013)

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umailedit (4/30/2013)

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My point is that if I'm being operated on, I don't want one brilliant person; I want the best team performance possible. If one person's...

It's sometimes easy to forget that professionally speaking, people skills aren't about being "nice"; they're about influencing to get a result. Patrick's post is a rather good reminder of this,...

TravisDBA (5/1/2013)

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majorbloodnock (5/1/2013)

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umailedit (4/30/2013)

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Let me take the contrary view here.

Hypothetical Question: You are about to have a brain aneurysm operated on. Who would you pick?

1) A brain surgeon with little...

umailedit (4/30/2013)

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Let me take the contrary view here.

Hypothetical Question: You are about to have a brain aneurysm operated on. Who would you pick?

1) A brain surgeon with little less technical...

Jeff Moden (4/30/2013)

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TravisDBA (4/30/2013)

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Jim Youmans-439383 (4/30/2013)

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Part of the daily grind for a DBA, in my experience, is dealing with frustrated people. You have to have excellent technical skills to...

A highly skilled techie (not just a DBA) with bad people skills will have to be excellent technically to keep their job despite their unsociability. As a result, they'll be...

TravisDBA (4/12/2013)

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Major,

I understand exactly what your saying, but I cant address that particular aspect properly because I don't work with the end user directly. My laisons are more with the...

My turn to apologise for not being entirely clear.

I fully expect the business users I talk with to know what they want. However, I do not expect them to know...

TravisDBA (4/11/2013)

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Any answer the man seem to give was not the right answer, so either the question was not plain enough up front or the interviewer was playing games with...

To quote Tom Lehrer..

"The usual jokes about the Army aside, one of the many fine things one has to admit is the way that the Army has carried the American...

ejoell 66477 (4/11/2013)

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@majorbloodnock

Concerning your remark from July 2008 about CS degreed folks having a better grasp of DB theory.

In my experience that has not been necessarily the case. Even...

TravisDBA (4/10/2013)

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djackson 22568 (4/10/2013)

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Two of...

Friday morning probably isn't the best time to try to get me thinking to that level, but thanks nonetheless. It's thought-provoking, and a good reminder that, to get the best...

I doubt there's going to be much debate on this editorial, Steve. Expect to be Warnocked.