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  • Reply To: A Third Break

    Mandeep Dulai wrote:

    For travel in the summer months, suggest Banff, Alberta and Jasper in the Rocky Mountains. Great place to unwind, relax, do some hiking\sight seeing and see all the beautiful...

  • Reply To: A Third Break

    skeleton567 wrote:

    My wife and I had a great experience on a Rhine-Danube cruise from Amsterdam all the way to eastern Europe ending with land travel to Ukraine and Romania where...

  • Reply To: A Third Break

    call.copse wrote:

    If I were you Steve I'd be looking at the Inca Trail for next year - if your knees are still up to it 😉

    It's more ankles, both for...

  • Reply To: A Third Break

    David.Poole wrote:

    With sabbaticals is it unpaid leave?  For much of my career I would not have been in a position to take such an option.

    paid leave

  • Reply To: Experimenting with Go-SQLCMD

    Thom A wrote:

    Honestly, I found one of early benefits of go-sqlcmd was that it has QUOTED_IDENTIFIER set to ON by default (unlike sqlcmd) and the -I switch (to enable Quoted Identifiers...

  • Reply To: Experimenting with Go-SQLCMD

    David.Poole wrote:

    If it is written in GO then that language has a nice balance of ease of use, speed of compilation, speed of execution, and testability.

    If anyone was wondering what...

  • Reply To: Data Modeling Information

    Sometimes having dates, or parts of dates, as integers work well. But not often. A dimension can make sense, but in most transactional tables, I think dates ought to be...

  • Reply To: Moving away from an RDBMS

    and knowledge on how to use the tool best. I think sometimes people move to NoSQL because it is easier for developers, but then reporting/analytics require ETL or a warehouse...

  • Reply To: Coming Out of the Cloud

    David.Poole wrote:

    When SQL Server Developer Edition was 1st released it was available at a price.  Later on it became a free product.  This meant that I could have a throttled...

  • Reply To: The Loss of Knowledge

    To manager is just another job. It's not above many of the workers, at least not in technical roles. Maybe in a McDonalds or retail store.

    I might argue the CEO...

  • Reply To: Waitfor Threads

    I thought we could re-rate content. I know that was an issue in the past. Seems like something has changed or is broken. Filing a bug.

  • Reply To: The Loss of Knowledge

    Rod at work wrote:

    Steve, if I could I'd give your article one billion likes. I totally agree with you.

    Thank you. I know of your struggles and hope you find a better situation.

  • Reply To: The Loss of Knowledge

    EdVassie wrote:

    The only constant is change.  Domain knowledge covers the gap between the perfection of everything being exchangeable (fungible) for the ideal widget for today, and the reality of keeping...

  • Reply To: The Loss of Knowledge

    EdVassie wrote:

    The only constant is change.  Domain knowledge covers the gap between the perfection of everything being exchangeable (fungible) for the ideal widget for today, and the reality of keeping...

  • Reply To: The Loss of Knowledge

    David.Poole wrote:

    Losing staff is like suffering an organisational brain injury.  In most cases the effect is minor akin to a memory lapse and the knowledge is still there, just not...

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