There is a place for a easy to deploy, middle weight, embeddable database solution like the aging Visual FoxPro or now defunct VistaDB. If Microsoft wants to attract more developers,...

While the situation I'm currently in isn't bad, it is a dead end as far as growth and any real challenges other than boredom of doing the same tasks. So...

That's how I ended up shoveling out the...

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"Data? You can't handle...

I was recently blocked from taking a secondment I was offered within the company because my moving would cause too much instability for my current department.

I then instantly became disinterested...

While not being formally part of IT, I work for the same big boss and get pulled in to assist. While it's granted that IT should be a "utility" that...

Technology enables people to make bigger mistakes. Some examples include automated trading programs and weapon systems, each which can be very damaging in their own way to society. Not...

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PASS really doesn't do much for me and I can't even attend the conference. If I'm going to volunteer, I'd rather help out...

What we really need is smarter, more responsible, more respectful people. 😛

Sometime back I was discussing a problem with a friend that related to an employee being upset about being asked to help out with something that wasn’t part of their...

Encryption is worth it for the reasons folks have stated. The largest percentage of folks that would take advantage of your work or mess with system integrity are detered by...

Mostly I write Septic-ware, since it deals with "nasty data". 😛

Releasing CU's and SP's must be incredibly expensive and laborious for MS. And yet, they are freely available to anyone - even those who DON'T own the product. And yet,...

:rolleyes:

That's a silly request... MS...

I'm a human ETL machine... 😀