My most formal attire was when I started at the police department. Winter uniform was long sleeve dress shirt and tie, summer uniform was short sleeve dress shirt and...

Good stuff, I just wish I had more time to work with DTS right now. Too much stuff clamoring for my attention.

Anyway, wanted to mention Linchi Shea's book on...

Thanks for the replies. Sorry for not replying, holiday insanity and illness have me somewhat backlogged.

My background: 25 years database design/implementation, 15 years experience SQL Server development and administration....

You WILL learn about the industry in which you're working, you don't have much of a choice. Having previous industry experience really depends, and always, if the employer says...

I think I started doing scheduled data quality queries with the first databases that we started developing. Currently I have a query that looks for bad times entered into...

Forgot something that I do on 2005. I have all my 2005 instances set to use checksums for torn page detection, so I run the following code in addition...

Excellent article, Ken. Your list should be part of every administrator's personal standard practices list, perhaps altered a bit for individual taste and installation specifics.

I also do full audits,...

Clifford Stoll, of The Cuckoo's Egg fame, wrote a book in '96 called Silicon Snake Oil (I enthusiastically recommend any book by Stoll) where he talks about lots of stuff,...

jpowers (12/19/2008)

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Wayne West (12/19/2008)

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... My favorite humorous depiction is any TV show or movie where the person sits down and just starts rapidly hitting keys: in most cases they never...

I will admit that the rig Jackman had in Swordfish was pretty awesome. It didn't make much sense, but it was cool. I am always amused by the...

Man, the first thing I thought of when reading the editorial and before I got to the replies was Colossus and the Crab and it was like the third reply!...

I'm envious, closed until the 5th?! We were lucky to get Friday the 26th off: City Council screwed up last year when they set the holiday schedule and did...

Sorry, BLandry, but I have to respectfully disagree. I think you can do reasonable estimates on important systems as to how big it can get. Calculating table and...

Ian Massi (12/17/2008)

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Potato cannons are all kinds of awesome. Mine is 4" combustion chamber by about a foot, then a 4 foot 2" barrel. Fueled from propane tank...

Oh, man,...