UI is a very important topic to me. As a software engineer producing LOB apps I've got to make UI better for users to do their jobs and be productive....

Those are good, Jeff, but I was thinking more like the baseball scores of during a particular time span, or something along those lines. Something that might be interesting rather...

There are most databases at my current job, than I am aware of. Overall, I would say that the DBA's here are highly thought of. The databases run as expected,...

FWIW, I haven't been able to run Books Online in quite a while. Guess I'm one of those whose still having problems getting that to work.

In my previous job we didn't do much auditing. There was some. We knew who had touched some tables, both for inserts and updates, but that wasn't done in many...

Ralph, I love how you mentioned you learned to never get too emotionally attached to a job. Perhaps I was too emotionally attached to my previous job.

Very good article. I'd give it multiple likes, if I could. I haven't time right now, but I intend to go back to that blog post you referenced by Eugene...

Good editorial, Steve. There's one thing I'd like to suggestion and an observation I'd like to add.

First, I suggest that if someone asks you a question you don't...

I love how you stated the question, Steve. Yes, I love my career. Predominately software development with some DBA as I can get it in.

My fiction reading pleasure is mysteries, especially those from the so called Golden Age of Mystery. And I prefer reading the Queens of Crime, Agatha Christie, Margery Allingham, Dorothy Sayers...