JenMidnightDBA (10/6/2010)

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Again, it's not that I, as a DBA in Company A, get paid less than the male DBA "Bob" in Company A (or even in Company B) just because...

craig.cannon (10/6/2010)

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But why the push? Why do we have the need to manipulate or to social engineer something? Why can't we let people be who they are and gravitate naturally...

jay holovacs (10/6/2010)

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...many people who gravitated to the IT world started out as teenagers obsessed, and I mean obsessed, with manipulating computers (and also, parallel, obsessed with gaming). Psychologically this...

Again, it's not that I, as a DBA in Company A, get paid...

karen_cote (10/6/2010)

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There are so many roles today, why do the geeks need to change to accomodate management's idea of political correctness? The type of 'oddness' that defines a geek...

This is a great deal for management. The carrot is that if you keep doing the job in "acting" or unofficial capacity long enough, including the nights and weekends,...

Clarie DeWayne (10/5/2010)

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As a woman in the production side of the IT/DBA business, let alone as a single mother, I believe it is very difficult for women to be fully...

Side note: it may not have balked at the empty string (unless those fields aren't character types), so much as the use of double quotes ("") instead of single ('').

You can use the function ABS ( numeric_expression ) to make any negative number positive.

So for example, if the SQL query is something like

SELECT column1, integerColumn FROM table1

just change...

Fatal Exception Error (1/6/2010)

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Just wow at some of the members here.

As for the woman who worked at USPS and ended up on letter duty. I don't think the man...

GilaMonster (1/6/2010)

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Depends where you are in the...

First: Gail, I agree with everything you've said so far. Now, for my own two cents...

Why are we making a deal out of women in technology? When an...