I too love Steve's editorials and always read them and want to see them left just where they are, as they remind me of the work-life balance when they pop...

It's even worse when highly paid contractors are given the work your team could have done and then have to come and ask you for help with something as simple...

I've made a point of removing it from new servers once SQL is installed and the service and agent startup accounts are properly set.

That way it is out before...

I managed to miss the article first time round but having read it and Steve's comments and the forum today I

wholeheartedly agree with Steve on all three areas.

Religion...

There are advantages to working for a pittance for the UK Civil Service!

Apart from the 25 to 30 working days holiday (increases with time served) there's 8 Bank Holidays...

It's easy to have a convention and stick to it yourself (closely anyway). What's really difficult is getting others to use it!

As soon as I read the article I thought "Thankfully we had the anti-MUCK table article not long ago". I'd like to add my vote to those against MUCK tables...

Glad to see the majority agree with "manual maths".

Both I and my children referred to in the earlier post were first taught in traditional English private schools some thirty odd...

......Users come to you with a "How do I change this in this application" query and you delve into the database with Enterprise manager to find the table and field...

My 14 year old daughter is celebrating at the start of this new school year because she will never have another IT lesson now she's started her GCSEs and IT...

When I worked in a local college, old PCs were offerred to the students cheaply. Not only was it an easy solution but they were a group on low incomes...

I also hadn't heard the abbreviation - interviewers and job description writers need to be more careful in assuming that their abbreviation is the norm. For my present job the...

I thought with America's Gun Laws (or rather lack thereof) and crime levels it was dangerous going out to lunch there anyway! At least, that's what we're told overseas.

...... but since it is a government secure site laptops and modems and data capture devices (even mobile phones with cameras) are not allowed on site!!

I a previous job, passwords used to be written sown, put in a sealed envelope, signed across the flap and stored in the fireproof safe in the personnel department, along...