I think Steve's last sentence was the tickler here.....

<< I think most DBAs would prefer to spend it on making the SQL more efficient, not more tested.

Steve Jones>>

My question is....How...

Like LONER in an earlier posting, I had to wear so many hats in an earlier consulting career that it got to be too much. One person can not...

I agree with both Andy and GSquared. A good article, but "incidental dbas" can provide an opportunity for those of us that may want to undertake a bit of...

Thanks for the comment, Steve.

dma said:

All of these things are true.. Similarly one of my other friends who ran a user group was barked at by management of two companies...

While I agree that networking is a vital part of staying in touch for any new position, should you happen to be looking for a new one, there are other...

A fair question and I have not really thought about fillfactors much. Reason? Because in past history we purchased individual servers speced out to meet the needs of the...

While I agree with all the points mentioned so far in the interview process, I think there is one thing (a tad old fashioned some will say) that I have...

My 2 cents worth....It seems that your editorial addresses two items: jobs and careers...and there is a big difference. A career requires planning, education, 'jobs', advanced training, networking,...

Update to an earlier query: We were looking for an inexpensive tool to handle reallocating disk space on a 64-bit SQL 2005 server with two Raid-1 assemblies. My server...

Great job!!! 1M members is quite an accomplishment. I'll probably not get one of the polos, but that's ok. Just getting the correct answer on the Question...

Here in rainy Washington state, the local paper lists ALL local city, county and public school employees and their wages on the paper web site, and keeps it updated! ...

Wow...after 8 pages of responses on a very interesting topic, I'm surprised that only one respondent has mentioned personal hygene. I don't care if you wear a suit, a...

Two great articles with handy tools. I happen to be looking for a disk partitioning tool (cheap but not Partition Magic since I can't find a "server" version) that...

Gaby: The repeating characters, either caps or lower case aren't a big deal. The first time I tested the proc, it just seemed to have an inordinate number...

The password generator does a nice job, but while testing the code in QA, I noted that the proc does seem to return an "abundant" number of 'repeats' in any...