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Putting Stock in Social Networks when Hiring
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Troubleshooting SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services problems (Part 3)
In this article, Alexander Chigrik explains some problems that you can have when you work with SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services. He also tells how you can resolve these problems.
Putting Stock in Social Networks?
I had an interesting question posed today. The gist of it was that someone was interviewing to fill a DBA position in their company. One of the interviewees had been doing DBA work for quite some time and seemed like an interesting candidate.
The issue was that searching for this person online resulted in... nothing. Nothing at all. No social sites, no posts, no nothing. Now, it's possible that it was just necessary to keep searching, but it brought up an intriguing question. If you cannot find someone online - someone that has been working with computers - is this an issue? If you couldn't find a single post, a single message, a single social networking site mention... would it begin to color your impression of this candidate?
Do you use social networking sites for an insight into your professional candidates, and in particular DBAs and database architects?
Drop me a note - let me know how you work through this . What tools do you use? How much weight does this type of reference (or lack of reference) have on your interview and appraisal process?
I've used this informally before, but it's more to exclude someone if they had something really funky in their profile. It's never really come up that I couldn't find ANY reference, so I don't know for sure how to interpret no profiles at all. Perhaps it's the whole "first, do no harm" thing - if you are concerned about what your profile would say or suggest, don't have one. Not sure - will look forward to your thoughts and comments.
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| Troubleshooting SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services problems (Part 3)
| |  In this article, Alexander Chigrik explains some problems that you can have when you work with SQL Server 2005 Analysis Servi... [more]
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SqlCredit Part 19: Exploring SQL 2005s Ranking Functions RANK() and DENSE_RANK()
| | (Rob Garrison) This is part 19 of a series. If you have not read part 18, you can find it here, but this article does not req... [more]
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How to Script a Profiler Trace for Use as a SQL Trace Data Collection Set for the SQL Server 2008 Performance Data Collector
| | (Brad M McGehee) In SQL Server 2008, a new feature called the Performance Data Collector was added. It has the ability to col... [more]
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SQL Server Sanity: Maintain Healthy Transaction Logs for Easy Data Recovery
| | (Susan Sales Harkins) Data is your business, and maintaining a healthy backup and recovery plan is vital to protecting your d... [more]
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The Argument For Normalization
| | (Kenneth Downs) This week we will review the practical arguments in favor of normalization. The major concern as always on th... [more]
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Tables in a Windows Presentation Foundation FlowDocument
| | (Neil Knobbe) vbCity Leader (and Microsoft MVP) Ged Mead showed how to create a FlowDocument in his article published on devC... [more]
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CodeSnip: Find Control in Nested Master Pages
| | (Abdulla Hussein AbdelHaq) Finding a server control inside a Content page inheriting from nested master pages is one of the p... [more]
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Fight spam and bots in Web applications with CAPTCHAs
| | (Tony Patton) Differentiating between a human user and a computer is a common task for Web applications. The need for such di... [more]
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The Power of Properties II: The View Object
| | (Avrom) Hey, did you know that, even if you create a Programmatic View Object (rows populated programmatically, not based on ... [more]
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Extending the RestLet application with support for POST/PUT to create and update Resources
| | (Lucas Jellema) In a previous post - First Steps with RestLet 1.1RC2 in JDeveloper 11g - restful services 101 - I introduced ... [more]
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Physical data organization and indexing
| | (John Charles Olamendy) This article is intended to explain the main storage structures used in database systems through exam... [more]
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SOA Product Review: Intel XML Software Suite 1.1
| | (Paul O'Connor) The one thing that unifies the distributed computing style known as SOA, in most of its manifestations, is se... [more]
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A Round-trippable Mapping Between JSON and XML
| | (Martin Atkins) One thing I like about JSON is that it has types that map nicely on to types found in most everyday programmi... [more]
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Subtyping in W3C XML Schema, Part 2
| | (Jack Lindsey) Concerned that an industry standard XML vocabulary may be too limited for your data exchange partners? No prob... [more]
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DB2 9 Application-Related Enhancements
| | (Bill Arledge) DB2 9 has been available since March 2007. You may be taking a closer look and evaluating those features that ... [more]
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APAR Friday: A few you should checkout and one you should follow
| | (Willie Favero) I arrived in Warsaw Friday evening and didn't really figure out all the connectivity stuff until this morning... [more]
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Industry Models and ILOG business rule management systems, Part 2: Incorporate a BRMS
| | (Brian Byrne, Greg Imirzian and Janet Wall) This is the second of two articles that focus on the use of IBM Industry Models a... [more]
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