Apologies in advance for the rant but I'm fed up with developers who go to great lengths to re-invent the wheel simply because they don't know how to do something...

Age is just a number and learning keeps the mind active and to demonstrate that my number's got to the mid-sixties and I'm getting into learning Azure to create a...

Just get the act together and brand as "DataSaturday incorporating SQLSaturday" and you get the best of both worlds.

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Today's tip: Look at photos from a time with happy memories

My screensaver is a slideshow of favourite personal photos of places we've been and ranges from Malmo to Barcelona, Mizen...

I found Bitbucket, with SourceTree installed on the local pc as the interface, is a much more understandable version of Git and never needs a command line. I like the...

More likely they are not working in the office so have other things to sidetrack to whilst working from home.

Proper source control needed surely? Wouldn't the process on receiving details of the original bug be to create a new branch in the version control system from the last released...

Thanks. I see what Phil sees.

How do we search the forums?

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Eight years ago I said

Word, Excel Visio, Outlook and lately Notepad++, which is brilliant and handles larger text files than MS products, although I had to think about...

How appropriate given the current furore in the UK over the disposal of landing cards of the "Windrush Generation" and subsequent inability to prove right to remain.
Love SQL Server...

Today's employers don't want their data going out of the office so they provide virtual machines on their servers for contractors and staff and you work on that remote desktop using...

If you favour the backup/restore approach, try pushing the cost angle of that - setting up a backup/restore = less than a day's work, setting up an SSIS job to...