Hi,

I don't know if marking posts as "answered" will help much. I'm thinking about using the answered flag in a search as well as flagging what is still outstanding. A...

Are these tables the local copies of the upgraded tables? I believe after you use the upsizing wizard you will have two copies - your original (which may be the...

R2D2 is my favorite computer. I hadn't watched the Star Wars movies (any) until...

I received that one too! It caught...

Try careerbeacon.com. I found this site the best for looking at jobs in the Atlantic Provinces.

Basically all government (local/provincial, probably not federal) and most major employers post here.

Instead of exporting, you can try using Excel and an ODBC connection to your import SQL server database.

The menu names may change a bit depending on what version of Office...

Collaborate. I think that teamwork is an extremely valuable skill to have. Maybe during the project work, you could say to the project manager that enough time wasn't allocated to...

Working with a team that might be considered 'weak' can still be beneficial to you. Can you provide training to these individuals without wrecking a time line? Could your role...

I refer to Inside SQL Server 2005 - TSQL Programming by Itzik Ben-Gan a lot. If you read this book cover-to-cover, I think it will address most TSQL concepts that...

Voting with paper and pencil is still not bug-proof.

Recently in the city I live in, we had an election where the votes were tied (no electronic voting machines). A recount...

Tom Garth (8/26/2008)

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A nice article and some good stories here, too.

On the fatigue factor. I've been there too many times to count, and made my share of big boo-boos as...

umailedit (7/18/2008)

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I think that the best 'soft' skills teacher is the book 'How to win friends and influence people' by Dale Carnegie. This book should be read once a year....

James Stover (6/20/2008)

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I have distilled my 6 points for the budding DBA...

1) How to create a database (seems obvious, but nevertheless...)

2) How to backup and recover a database (with options)

3)...

Where I last worked, we had one person in charge of the ERP - implementation, testing, training, dealing with the vendor, everything. We never went early adopter for that reason....

Does this database have a front end application? Are users able to change any settings (ie. how long to keep data, ability to turn on/off trackable data, etc)

We had this...