Oh my, what comes around goes around again and again. How many of you remember being told to drop your Subject Matter Expert title and be ready to know a...

Great! Thanks for this example. Rumor is 2012 has a fix for the flat file import but till then this ia by far the best example I have seen!

Chris

"So yes the developer is involved heavily for four or so months and they should be directly involved with knowledge transfer to the maintenance team. But they remain involved such...

I know a large telecom that paid bonus on fixes in production to developers. This did not work out for them as people left bugs in knowing they would fix...

I love the real world perspective you give the SQL world. Everything from salary negotiations to temp and permanent positions cons and pros. As a former contractor now full time...

I think your dead on about bring in help. The only problems is getting the help not to over stay thier welcome!

I wrote the post and it does just what it said it does every time after reboot. Sorry so many got it wrong! But if you need to chill out go...