As I recently pointed out, even though mass storage is pretty inexpensive, there is also the consideration of time and effort spent with backups and validation and such that goes...

Alex, just a couple things from an old-timer for you to consider.

First, if you are serious about that number of rows, you need to fix that.  What are you doing,...

I think sometimes with these companies, they get a lot of income from paid support too so it may not be in their interests to make things easy to...

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I'm envious, Rick. You're environment sounds like one I'd like to work in. I understand my management's decision, made long before I came here, to adopt lots of vendors...

Rick (skeleton567), I like your answer. Probably the majority of our databases are related to vendor applications, so they control the database schema and we're not allowed to change...

In my last position we didn't need change control.

We weren't allowed to make any changes...

I've had the same experience with commercial software packages with their own designs.  I guess there are reasons that these db' s often are lacking good design, beyond just plain...

At one company where I worked the business was the design and manufacture of large scale equipment for indoor and outdoor facilities.  I was actually constrained by management from creating...

Online persona?  Is that sort of like being an 'influencer'?

I guess there's nothing wrong with being one, it's just the believing one!.

I currently work for a state government agency. The benefits aren't as good. Vacation and sick leave are limited. A colleague of mine, whose worked here for 15 years,...

An important thing to realize about benefits is that they are often negotiable.  You shouldn't just automatically accept the first offer.  Of course there is the negotiation on salary that...

Look at the changes they did in 2016... they made it so that all files in Temp DB suffer the equivalent of TF 1117 to force all files to...

Well, here is an interesting sidelight to all of this.  I've been sitting here today listening and agreeing that I truly am a full-fledged CC.  Conversely, in my last position...

I've also been hearing that the DBA position is obsolete for at least 15 years and companies are still trying to find DBA's to fill open positions.  Where I...

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I would like to take this opportunity to thank you all for helping to justify my existence as a CC since I took my first and only IT Manager position...

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