Very cool, Gail! What a wonderful group to be inducted with!

My heartiest contrafibulations (I've been watching Black Adder of late)! 😀

Jim Russell (7/3/2008)

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If the people making the recruiting/hiring decision have no insights into the job or understanding of the skills required, they tend to rely on secondary criteria such as...

Huzzah! Congrats to you both, may you wear it with pride justly earned.

Thanks again for the checkdb note. Reading...

Very interesting, Steve. I somehow missed this post when it first appeared, very glad the third article was featured in the news letter. I used to work for...

Heh, found the problem! The test database wasn't there previously, someone created it on 6/26, which is when the DBCC result file doubled. I had assumed that it...

When I am among the unwashed masses, i.e. the public, I call myself a computer programmer. When I am at work, I am the DB admin or DB developer....

Shaun McGuile (6/26/2008)

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Star Trek got it wrong - who would send their most gifted t(r)echies off into space? They could die, be captured by the klingons anything. 😀

We do not...

I cannot imagine how painful it would be to manage a thousand identical databases, much less the hell that reporting would be. Very glad you were able to get...

That's the thing that I just don't get: how could a company object to ODBC? It's not the best, but it's certainly one of the most useful tools that...

The book is...

My first real database development job (yeah, dBase III+!) I worked 10-7....

For a person who is a DBA, and a DBA only, I think the first one is not necessary, but it depends a lot on your organization size and structure....

Beautiful! Exactly what I needed, especially that [font="Courier New"]@errcode & ErrorCode > 0[/font].

Excellent solution, Sergiy. Thanks very much.

Though I don't aim for them, I seem to end up in positions where I'm the only one in the DBA position. I ALWAYS take vacations, usually in the...