Ok, I'm lost. I can understand an end user not really caring where the connection physically ends up at, but I would think a DBA would have to care....

I think the two worst time suckers are Television and Telephones.

Television sucks up my private life, and Telephones were a horrible waste of my business time.

My third worst is giving...

Perhaps people fell into that trap because some programmers don't clean up after themselves. I've come across code that continually created random named temp tables rather than creating and...

I'm glad you've finally seen how wrong you are and finally realized how right I am...:-)

Another one is the "that will never happen here" and its corollary "we're never going to do that."

I've seen those flip so many times over the years that I now...

Sounds like a case of way too many programmers with way too much time on their hands...

Ahhh, One of my favorite subjects.

Years back I discovered the hard way that joining multiple tables could dramitically increase the total run time. This was in...

Both sql60190 and Steve point to another issue.

That is the massive extent and learning curve of modern languages. It was fairly easy to "know" 50% and utilize or...

I think its important to have a good foundational understanding of programming and when/why to use an SQL query instead of writing code.

I learned SQL by looking at the resulting...

Good ones. Number 5 reminds me of the Engineering Manager that decided to cook salmon in a toaster oven in his office. Building stunk for days...

Unfortunately number 10...

Just a warning. Ice chewing frequently is a sign of iron deficiency. I found this out while recovering from colon cancer surgery. I was always craving...

People that feel it is necessary to describe their lives to everyone, in great detail, all day long.

I had one person that worked for me that would tell the same...

Weekly massage sessions, Roof top pool side bars, and little paper umbrellas in the drinks.

No, seriously. I don't want to get smashed at work, but I really would like...

It took me years to realize that I had to look out for myself because bosses won't do it for you.

I finally gave up a Directors position in one company,...

For internally supported code staying 1/2 or 1 release behind in production DBs makes the most sense to me.

IE, start working on conversion to the latest version once...