Oh yeah - I forgot about that.

Still, I prefer to not leave it to chance and define the directories explicitly as there are software packages out there that do not...

It was all straight forward.

The sp4 & the other group of patches to take it up to b2187 only look for 2000 - it doesn't appear to even recognise that...

Women in IT get discouraged?

I think it's more a case of there being so few women in IT that they are constantly being hit on and when they knock a...

That wasn't Grant - that was me.  Not hard to work out who's the Aussie (or one of them) around here

I'll be...

Yeah - that'll do....  It'll have to be far better than a "Bondi Handshake" [A Sydney *thing* - anything that is 'Bondi' means that it's a bloody long way from...

Hi Grant.

Hi Stella.

I'll skip the hug thing though - not many attractive people go into IT....

I think there are just as many dumb answers as there are dumb questions, but humour never seems to be a bad thing when faced with a non-relevant question.  After...

Ditto (just never had enough interest to ask.... )

Just when trying to upload from the 'browse' on my PC.

So what kind of DBA are you if part of your duties will see you become the King of Documentation (when you enter an organisation that has done *none*....

What kind of DBA am I?

After the effort this morning, I'd be saying: "A bad one!"

You know how it goes when you work with people from the Network area and...

That would have to be the simplest & therefore the best explanation I have ever seen of the levels.

Well done!

(dammit - how to do I get a quote box up in this? ) 

Steve is right in his latest post:

I was...

Have to agree with the Loner there.  # of years doing something does not indicate prowess or skills.

While I had been a DB2 Systems DBA for 8 years, I was...

Yet you would be surprised just how much differently you are treated in an office environment, even when a propellor-head, when wearing a shirt & tie.  I have seen the...

I can be as silly as the next person when the situation calls for it but considering that interviews are stressful at the best of times, breaking the tension too...