Bosses, in my experience, want to know they can reach out and touch you any time during a 9-10 hour span. They don't care what you're working on, your progress....

Very true. Some people get caught up in how technically brilliant they are, losing sight of how their customers view their work. Unfortunately, most peoples egos are far to large...

I created a stored proc to pull job status (like the article), and it works great in the test environment. As soon as I pushed it to production I get...

I'm not concerned with skiing or great bars. I want content and substance for my money.

I've been in IT a little over 2 years now. I'm female. There are no other women programmers in my company.

I'll just list the facts of how I'm treated (I'll...

Gee.thanks. First time I ever post... thanks a ton. You're the best!

Ah. Ok. I don't have Northwind installed anywhere.

The temporary table does not contain a column "CategoryName". It attempts to update a column that does not exist. It would throw an error, not return rows.