Love this, Steve! Too much of my career has been just taking whatever comes my way. I've taken to heart your admonition to manage your own career. I doubt most...

Good topic! I've been databases with miserable naming conventions. Names so short that it was impossible to discern what the table or column names were for. Unfortunately, I've been involved...

WOW, excellent ideas Steve! And very challenging.

Really good advice, Steve. I've had bad bosses and good bosses over the years. I left one job, in part, because of the bad boss. He was asking me to...

I like the use of NULL's, but I try to structure the tables so that when fields are number, there's not a lot of them in any given row of...

I heard this first on my MP3 player, a few days ago. It was kinda loud around me so I didn't get a chance to understand what you were saying,...

Great topic, Ben. I'm surprised to not see about 10 pages to this topic already!

 I had a goal, for 2017, to move onto another situation. Don't get me...

Yes Thom A, I am running Windows 10. Windows 10 Pro, in this case.

I'm resuming working on this issue, on this long holiday weekend. I found this article Lesson 2: Connecting from Another Computer which looks helpful....

Good topic, Ben. I'm of two minds on this. When I was unemployed I learned fast that skills I didn't have were paramount. They were newer skills. Simply put, if...

Merry Christmas!

Yep. Each and...