I've got to that age where as long as it works, reliably and consistently I'm happy.

The Dell workstations we have were top of the line when we got them 6...

I think Steve should have added, "If you have ever programed in Assembler, of any kind, you know what you are doing and are except".

As someone who started...

When I needed to learn XPath and XQuery I went to W3Schools (www.w3schools.com), the tutorial was straight forward and has a good reference section.

I started off as a VB6/VBA programmer...

This isn't just true in programming, it is true in all businesses. No one is allowed to be contented in their current job. The same mindset which...

XML is a solution looking for a problem. The big mistake is thinking that data interchange is the problem. I have a data file to send that has...

There seems to be a lack of basic shell programming experience. This leads to developers looking for a complicated solution instead of a simple batch file or shell script.

I have had to spend hours re-formatting badly set out code to make it readable before I even stand a chance of understanding what it does. Some of it...

Quick bug fix.

The line "EXEC ('USE '+@DB_NAME+';"

Should be "EXEC ('USE ['+@DB_NAME+'];"

otherwise it fails if you have a database name with spaces in.

Not that any of us would do this,...

You don't have SQL Server Agent, but you do have the windows scheduler and a work around.

You need to create all of the stored procedures that you want the jobs...