I had a recruiter call about a DB2 position. I talked to him for a bit, feeling increasingly uncomfortable that he really didn't know what he was talking about....

Ah, but we have a 50lb standard poodle, we'd need the Optimus Prime model!

I'll have to take a look at box.net, but I have a personal paranoia about people offering 'free' storage. I've used it for small stuff in the past, but...

We considered one, but we're not sure if the poodle would be too happy with one.

I've been thinking along the same lines. I'm considering setting up a second PC to act as a file repository and central music source, get two or three external...

I don't like the concept of 'over the wire' computing for my personal use. I want to know where my backups are, I want to be able to lay...

It's in the 2008 beta, not in 2005.

"Three can be told a secret if one is deaf and one is dead."

To attribute all of the events of 9/11/2001 to a conspiracy would require hundreds, if not thousands,...

Merge is part of the ISO SQL standard, the MS implementation always seems to lag a generation or so behind ISO.

There's nothing saying we have to use it, like so...

Wouldn't have helped in this situation: he resigned two months after a poor performance review.

When the dot bombs started falling, it wasn't unusual to be called into the office of...

I really don't understand aspects of this. You would think that the network engineer would know enough about his craft to know that unless he were exceptionally skilled and...

I remembered an obscure problem that I had. Jobs scheduled for midnight frequently wouldn't run because of something weird with how the clock rolled over, so you scheduled jobs...

In my case, my backups go to a SNAP server which I check on a regular basis, so I would see that my backups are no longer running. When...

Wow. I'd never seen that behavior before. However, on my system it is correct when results are in grid, incorrect when they're in text.

Have you noticed this in...

Well, my shop is still on 2000, so I can't comment on the startup speed of SSMS but it seems reasonably snappy on my Mac in Parallels.

My solution to slow...