In my current position I don't handle backups nor restores. That's others' job. In my previous job, until the university IT department took over those responsibilities, we would hold onto...

Very good advice, Steve. Although I'd like to add that sometimes, depending upon one's circumstances, you might put in a lot of time related to your job due to commuting....

I've worked for project managers and supervisors who treated others and myself rudely. I've never liked seeing others treated rudely, nor have I liked being treated rudely.

Although I'll grant you that sometimes coding questions are asked during an initial interview, not all initial interviews have coding questions. Many initial interviews that I had were more of...

When I first started to read this editorial, I was repulsed by the idea of having an Avatar do the talking in an initial interview. But then I thought about...

I agree with you, Steve, at least in principal. And its one we've recently adopted here. But we're also experiencing a lot of push back by the users. The first...

Good questions you've raised, Steve. Like you, I tend to hold onto emails for long times. At my old job we had fewer resources, so we were involved in getting...

This change in how Microsoft is pushing out updates, using CU's instead of SP's, is going to through some people off, I think. I've known enough DBA's what only seem...

Sounds like you're definitely further down this cloud road, then I am, Steve. Sage advise, thank you for sharing it!

I don't agree with you on this one, Steve. There's a lot of MS Access apps around here, where I work. I was told by the head DBA that a...