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  • Reply To: The harsh reality of charitable IT work

    I've worked in the non-profit field for over 20 years and most of these organizations do not need experts, we need jacks-of-all-trades. I'm the DBA, network admin, system admin for...

  • RE: New IT Departments

    I still manage my companies' systems, just most of my servers are in the cloud. Microsoft manages the servers and I manage the rest. My job hasn't changed, we still...

  • RE: IoT Success

    I want to be the DBA for the shrimp farm. 'Smell those shrimp tI've...

  • RE: The Avalanche of Cloud Computing

    Our email won't come back on premises as it was moved to O365. Also or file server. I've also replicated most of our servers to Azure. It is certainly not...

  • RE: What do you do or think about on the way to work?

    When I'm riding my bicycle to work I'm enjoying nature and hoping not to get run over by a car. :w00t: When I'm driving my car I'm wishing I was...

  • RE: An object lesson about what is really important

    God, family, work in that order. Lately I've been filling my life with mission work, family, job.

  • RE: The Work of the Ancients

    We have one database that started on SQL 6.5 so about 15 years, now on SQL 2008. Also Access DB that was on Access 2.0 in 1998 when I took...

  • RE: SSMS or SSDT

    SSMS. Sometimes Visual Studio with BIDS Helper.

  • RE: Access Disdain

    I started with DB1, DB2, DB3 back in the late 80s, then progressed to Access 2.0, 97, etc. Access was a huge improvement over the DB product. We have several...

  • RE: Backup Responsibility

    We use native SQL backups that are then backed up to tape using Symantec BackupExec. As the DBA/Network Admin I'm responsible for backing up all company data and testing it.

    I...

  • RE: Bad Days

    I had worked at my present company for 3 years training people on computers and in 2001 was asked to join the IT department as the help desk. Unknown to...

  • RE: The Geek Christmas Poll

    Just bought the wife and I a Kindle Fire HD to replace the old Kindle reader. But would like a Surface Pro 2 just for me.

    Other than that peace...

  • RE: Scripting

    I've just started working with PowerShell and I save my scripts in Notepad so I can comment them. Otherwise I'll forget what I created the script for. Scripting is the...

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