Happy 40 Steve !

It's my turn this weekend and it seems we both feel comfortable with the age.

The special events around are house are the birthdays of my wife and...

I like to think that managers who can't manage people who are working from home are bad managers.

In my former job, I had to take sick-leave one time because my wife's...

I have recently been forced to start working with Oracle after having run an SQL Server for over 10 years.

What I've concluded so far is that they are both great...

We used to play a game where somebody would name a city. The next person would have to name the next city whose name started with the last letter of...

I remember my father saying that eventually, they'd be driving on the right side of the road in England. To change this, just tell the trucks to go there first....

For more than a decade, I've work days of 9 hours minumum, excluding the two hour commute to and from the office. Once I got a wife and kids (=...

I think we could do with showers at work. A lot more people would come to the office by bike or even running if they had the chance to freshen...

Two proverbs here:

1) Anything worth doing is worth doing well.

2) Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

I think anyone who has ever written code, has tried to make it work...

I believe it depends on the importance of the system to the existence of the company.

Restores for financial and transactional systems should be tested at least once a month in...

Setting up that 64-bit server just to familiarize with the phenomenon.

The more bits, the merrier...

Happy anniversary !

MS rules. There's no need to cult that....

Happy birthday Kendall !

I guess a lot depends on people's definitions of what a datawarehouse and a DBA is .

I was hired a few months ago to...

Probably from New York to Seattle via New Orleans, but can you try something like this:

CAST the date as a char or varchar, then query for the minimum lenght.

If the...