I'm another Jim that is with Jim. 30+ years and the situation is that a central IT for 40 plus hospitals and a very large number of attached...

I had tried leadership roles in the past and found that those roles were a struggle. While I have all the various skills in adequate quantity, I don’t have...

JimS-Indy has a ways to go to become an old guy. I just turned 66 and after fooling around the Navy I went into Clinical Engineering for 30...

Absolutely!!!! We have a number of applications which function quite adequately to their tasks that require 2000 and won’t integrate with anything newer. Unless those applications...

I use sandor_g's approach from a series of tables for equating individuals to particular types of emails in SSIS. Great flexibility when sending to multiple receivers. I do...

I had a similar issue with consistently two lines of footer at the end of a flat file. What I finally did was use a Script Task, using...

Using DTS in 2000 I run a check for every second Thursday with the following code and set the 'job' to run every Thursday. If it is the right...

Yep, that's my kludge code all right

Very interesting. I have had my share of scheduling challenges like running a job every second Thursday and still haven't come up with a good non-kludgy way of running...

Cardex files might be the solution after all!  I can see the code now:  SELECT Card where Index_1 =……    In a society such a ours...

It is a sad day when the integrity of someone entrusted with sensitive data even has to be questioned.  Says a lot for the condition...

I use something that might be helpful.  I set up a DTS that checks every day on an FTP site for a file name that is dynamic in that the...

You know, until this article I never really thought about liking or not liking my job!   But looking back,  waaaaaaayyyyyyyyyy back, I can’t remember a...

Just got email from HR.  They decided just that.  Want me to set up app to be ran from their side to do whole process.  Will comply with just a...

Doing all but images now with no problem.   Images are done manually, one by one.  I think I will just go back to a vb app to handle the images,...