This very nicely sums up just about everything I have learned in nearly 30 years in this business. Many thanks!

I pay for my own certifications, and I find that the big investment here is time and my employer can't realistically do anything about that. The dollar cost is...

Very interesting that for most people, inspiration seems to come away from the office. For me, it seems to happen when I'm washing dishes! Something about the mindless...

Thanks for this, an excellent tip! I discovered that even if you skip the extra column and just run the reverse query, i.e., "where reverse(fieldname) like 'cba%'" instead of...

Happy anniversary!  Many happy returns!

Not so long ago, it seemed as if everyone was wringing their hands about 16 bits vs. 32 bits.  (Fortunately I'm not old enough to remember...