It's too open-ended a question. You'll pick it up differently than everyone else.

As an American, I thought the UK was strange, but people were nice.

All are being used around the world. Different ratios in different places.

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Actually, I think I'm not doing a lot of "DBA" work these days, unless you count playing with the product. No real production support or development here. We have a...

Is this for pleasure? Where in the UK are you going?

I think London is pretty nice if you've never been there. Lots to do, can be $$$, but you might...

The history above is correct. Right now there are essentially 3 full time employees working in "publishing" for Red Gate. That includes Simple-Talk and book publishing along with this site....

We don't offer PDF in general. We have compiled a number of articles into a Best Of SQLServerCentral.com book each year, but those are used for promotional and marketing purposes....

Red Gate Software (UK) owns the SQLServerCentral.com site. They have one employee in Colorado (US), one in Hawaii (US), and one in Asia (Malaysia, I think). Other than that,...

You haven't really posted a question or described what you want to accomplish. You should explain what you are trying to do or accomplish, perhaps even a little bit of...

I'm suggesting that you fit into the culture. Not that you agree with everything or even that you are afraid to disagree about decisions, but work within the culture. To...

I should have mentioned taxes, but the only difference I'm aware of in the US is that if you contract directly, you pay 15% self employment tax v 7.5% FICA.

While...

English is a mess, and probably the fault of my fellow Americans, so I'll apologize for the alterations, inconsistency, and just general silliness of our alterations to the "Queen's English"....

From a reader/listener (attached): rename as .wav

Sums it up nicely.

I'll chime in here, with kids off to school and a cup of coffee to enjoy the comments with.

I've started the second part, but lots of your ideas will be...

Guess the spell checker didn't help with my acronyms. I had to look a few up to write the editorial and I mis-spelled (Does that make sense?) them.

Acronyms make sense...

Lunchtime is when many people do it, but I've often found lunch not respected and plenty of "working lunches".

I think separate from lunch, or maybe an extended lunch, or just...