Loner,

Is this the job you referred to in the post several weeks ago where you said that nobody (including husband) wanted to listen any longer or did you go and...

I'm with a financial institution and all of our boxes are still SS2K. The only reason I want to step up is so that we don't get too far...

Johan,

Valid points but what you have done here is assumed something to be fact when quite the opposite is true. I don't accept what the media tells me on...

I had forgotten about once recruiter with whom I had dealings and I think it prudent that I mention it considering that I generally bag the hell out of recruiters...

Seeing the irony of what I am about to write, I will write it anyway (as someone who has gone off on tangents in the odd post or three...

As I've stated on many posts made on here, the vast majority of my experiences with Recruiters has been bad. To say that most are lazy cretins who know...

Loner,

Sorry about my lack of tact in putting the emphasis on you being a woman. Think about it though - how many women would pick the handle of...

I came from a DB2 background where SQL Server was regarded as nothing more than a toy database system. Comparing SQL 6.5 or 7.0 to DB2 v3 or even...

While making an assumption here, it never occurred to me that Loner is a female ("...told my husband...")

This answers some questions while causing some other thoughts to require a re-think.

I'm...

We've been using a product called 'LogMeister' for quite a few months now and found it to be excellent and very cheap for what it does (US$129 or so).

Well worth...

I have a Red-Gate / "Simply Ingenious" shirt which I don't wear because I don't like to advertise

I also have a Simple-Talk /...

Hey dude - where's your skateboard?

(sorry - I just couldn't leave that one alone.... )

Referring back to me previous post and how I should have been more diplomatic in my response to the recruiter, I think the thing that has been forgotten was that...

I have to agree with what you say about not burning your bridges even when someone does you wrong and that is a practice I maintain. There are times...

I knew about the manhole cover thing but never bothered to comment because it wasn't worth the time to type a rep*.....

The question comes...