Steve Jones - SSC Editor (3/31/2014)

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skeleton567 (3/31/2014)

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Separate minority groups by definition tend to separate further instead of aiding acceptance. Especially in technology, get in there and prove your competency...

Phil Factor (4/1/2014)

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I'm surprised, I'll admit, that anyone should want to argue that developers as a profession are noted for their diversity. Please, if you think that the profession...

"If only developers were able to bring such a range of skills, experience and knowledge to the job!"

The cheek of it! Our development team consists of a teacher with...

free_mascot (4/1/2014)

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This is thumb rule or nature of law if in IT DBA'S paid more people will attact to that job and salary will nutralize. This is purle game of...

auke.teeninga (3/6/2014)

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In many programming languages the third argument wouldn't even be evalutated if the second argument didn't appear in the first argument.

All these will just return 'ABC':

SELECT REPLACE('ABC', 'Z', 1)

SELECT...

The old adage, you learn by your mistakes, is worth bearing in mind here.

Iain M. Banks's Culture books, as previously noted.

Aaronovitch's 'Rivers of London' series would lend itself to the TV very well.

A good version of The Day of the Triffids.

Knew it wouldn't work but picked the wrong option why.

Greg, if you can edit this, can you change

SalesAgent's

to

SalesAgents

where you just mean the plural, please?

Steve Jones - SSC Editor (12/26/2013)

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Brent Ozar (12/26/2013)

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Why is it headline news that you agree with me, Steve? Are you saying you don't always agree with me, is that what...

below86 (12/19/2013)

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majorbloodnock (12/19/2013)

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Jim Youmans-439383 (12/19/2013)

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At my last job, we had a use it or lose it policy. If you did not use your two weeks, then you lost it....

What he said.

"We don't need winners and losers; we need success from everyone."

I know this is a bit off-topic, but someone needs to drill this in to the heads of the idiots...

We're a small company where we can't afford a specialist DBA, and there wouldn't be enough for them to do even if we could, so although I'm primarily a developer...

Sean Lange (11/18/2013)

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Revenant (11/18/2013)

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Sean Lange (11/18/2013)

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Revenant (11/18/2013)

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Sean Lange (11/18/2013)

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. . . While the pivot seems a bit contrived here it does a good job of demonstrating how it can be...