Do you mean the guy doing the work or the company that provides a contractor?

I used to bill $100/hr in 2001/2002 time frame as a senior guy for work I...

Ultimately companies do things for financial reasons. However there is a moral component, and that makes sense to varying degrees, depending on leadership.

Lots of companies were happy to do business...

Here's my take. All of the agent based tools have had issues at times. I've sen too many of them fail on restores, which is what is critical. I don't...

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Interesting article...as someone who has worked in other cutlures somehow i find this US paradigm of more $ = less appreciation somewhat disgusting..all humans need appreciation and some of...

Paul,

I've actually seen quite a few DBAs that shun coding, or development skills. And quite a few people that thought that was a good idea since they could focus on...

I'm not sure you need a proper education, but just some education. That could be hands on.

However I was curious, is it worth something in terms of time per week...

Most of the software reviews I've seen are very light. They don't seem to do the same job that a Consumer Reports does. There are exceptions, but they tend to...

It's Vegas, of course I'll have the Friday shirts there!

If you are there Tues, I'd agree Powershell would be a good one to attend. Lots of it being used in...

I believe the author was trying to point out confusion can result from negative logic tests. I have added a note to the explanation.

First, if this is going to support 100,000 people and it's worth a lot to your company, you ought to engage a consultant that works with systems like this. Someone...

Lynn, I get emails and PMs regularly asking for help. I just point them to the forum.

Don't worry, Barry, I'm frequently lost on this one as well.

I believe it can. There is a merge operation that can take results and put them together.

http://www.sql-server-performance.com/tips/composite_indexes_p1.aspx

You can use the maintenance plans and add a cleanup task to remove backups. Note that this uses a location to delete, so if people are making backups in random...

Most magazines that accept advertising don't do head to head comparisons because it's bad for business. We tried to do that years ago and it was a mess.

Consumer Reports, and...