We've all read the stories about what it was like to work at major companies when they first started up. What would it have been like to work at Apple...

Before becoming a developer, I was leaning towards network administration back in the days of Novell. The training back then was 'when you see this warning do this' and 'when...

I studied music in college. I was fortunate to be one of those 'artist types' whose artistic talents translated into machine awareness. I was self-taught for a long time, but...

Question: How would this effect features of SQL Server which interact with other windows-dependent features such as CLR? I know we've had discussions on this forum as to whether SQL...

Robert,

You know, it did occur to me that I could be getting the phone number of someone who got rid of it for them same reason I was getting rid...

Steve - right on.

We just transferred our phone from the regional provider to our cable provider. I could have kept my old phone number, but decided to get a...

Remember when requesting your new chair to use the word 'ergonometric'. It's a good 25 cent word for 'scientifically designed to make you more productive at lesser cost'. That's not...

One of my least favorite phrases is "It will never happen here". In the 1962 novel, "Fail-Safe", author Eugene Burdick speculated on what would happen if all of the people...

Sounds like interesting reading.

Some years ago, I ran into an educational concept called 'learning styles'. It was a group of people attempting to catalogue the various ways that people take in information. You've...

All I know is that is wasn't my fault...

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Mike C.

Thank you for your answer to a slightly lazy question - Yes, I should have simply run the query SELECT Rand() and pushed the start button several times and...

OK. I'll be the one to ask the dumb question:

Most languages have a random function that does not require you to add seeds and/or do other things to make them...

Good points, Steve. I think that one of the things we need to do as developers and admins is keep a file of ways to market ourselves. This is true...

Maybe it's a question of how large your company is. In the small companies I've seen, developers are expected to administrate. Admins are seen as unnecesary overhead. The same...