I am a C# developer that creates web applications and Windows services that use SQL Server and DB2 databases. I can design database tables with PKs and FKs as part...

There's been discussions about putting the databases under source control where I work. But I don't think that the databases have been put into any source control. As a C#...

I bought and read the Brooks Mythical Man Month book years ago (decades?). There was one person, Diana, who thought that she was project manager extraordinaire. The first project that...

What if it had been the director that opened the document?

I've had a few of travel stories. I had spent a week and a half in Columbus Ohio in March; although spring was near, it was still winter in Columbus...

My thoughts and prayers and hope things have gone well, Ralph. I do think that despite all the hassles, and the EMR issues, this is light years better...

When my wife was treated for cancer, all of her doctors were associated with the same hospital. With the electronic medical records, each of her doctors, surgeon, radiation oncologist, and...

This year, I became eligible for US Medicare; I am still working and on my employers health plan and declining Medicare B while I'm working. But I've gotten email from...

I worked for one company that developed financial software for banks to approve loans. The company signed a contract with a big New York City bank to deliver loan approval...

DBA - Don't Bother Asking; I like that. As a developer, in my career, I have encountered two DBAs, one SQL Server and the other DB2, that their standard answer...

I want to keep sending the alerts out as long as the problem exists; otherwise, it may be viewed as a transient problem. Shifting to a longer polling frequency helps...

I developed a monitoring service on Windows that monitors a web application on a periodic basis by checking that it returns valid web login page and that it can establish...

Some people swear by VMs. I am one that swears at VMs. I've been burned too many times by VMs.

I moved from an old PC with Window 7 to a new one with Windows 10 about two years ago. The new PC came with a 256 GB SSD system...

I developed windows services to monitor a fragile vendor web application that sent out notifications and alerts, and a Linux based hardware appliance that processed HL7 messages that was also...