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| | | Work/Training Balance - The hidden balancing act Today we have a guest editorial as Steve is out of the office. Many discussions occur about work/life balance. It appears that most people are striving to achieve a good balance or, at least, are aware of it. I believe that this is exceptionally important and am critical of myself for doing so badly at it. I am improving but too slowly. We can further break down the work aspect. What I am considering today is whether we, as a collective, are achieving a proper work/training balance. By this I am considering the work aspect of the classical work/life balance and asking how many of us put in enough time to maintain our own skill set at a high enough level required to perform our work duties. Some companies help out here by providing on the job training, some individuals help themselves by putting in effort in their own time, some people benefit from both and there are even those that apply neither. Of course, doing neither may be a valid option. For example, if you are working on a technology that is not changing in your environment, your job appears safe and you are retiring soon, then you may feel that there no longer is any benefit to develop your work skills. Or maybe you are about to change careers. I suspect for the majority of us we still need to maintain some work/training balance. Without the assistance of employers, either directly by supplying formal training or indirectly by allocating time, we may struggle to find this balance inside of an appropriate work/life balance. Gary Varga from SQLServerCentral.comJoin the debate, and respond to today's editorial on the forums |
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| | | | | Additional Articles from SimpleTalk Why is it that we use XML, but with so little enthusiasm when it does so much, and is so feature-rich? Phil Factor argues that there are better ways of doing it, more complete than JSON, but easier to read than XML. To try to convince you, he gives a set of flying demos, using PowerShell and his PSYaml module, to illustrate how YAML can let you work faster, and more accurately. More » |
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| | | | Nicholas Williams from SQLServerCentral.com Greetings, This piece of code will allow you to add a stored procedure name as a parameter, and will then take the output results of the procedure and email it to an address of your choosing, automatically formatting the results into an HTML table embedded in the email for clear and easy reading, or alternatively as an attachment. Regretfully, there are a few limitations which I will eventually get around to fixing when I am interested in this again, namely: Uses a static 100 length on the output columns instead of dynamically applying a length by referencing the source data Cannot use procedures that have a blank column aliased ie.SELECT ' ' as Store FROM table. Requires Ad Hoc Distributed Queries server setting to be enabled. Change cursors into tally or alternate loop Customization of colours, table length, font etc. It is executed as follows: EXEC DBAdmin.[dbo].[dba_EmailProcResults] @vcProcName='sp_lock' ,@vcDatabaseName='master' , @vcRecipients='<UrEmailHere>' , @vcDynamicSubject = 'Log Backup Check' I hope you have fun using this, and feel free to contact me with questions, suggestions or critique's. Regards, Nick More »
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