When I was working as a minframe application designer and developer, I was one of those 10x engineers.

I never thought the others in the team did not earn their salaries,...

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Where there is honey it will attract wasps.  There are many types of wasp:

* Inexperienced, mostly young and independent, playing with the free stuff that is out there and working...

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One very simple but useful task I use AI for is to summarise documents I author.

Adobe Reader allows you to generate a summary of the open document. I do this...

Personally I think any "solution" based on reading details from the client computer is a good way to have problems. You are relying on the client to have the "right"...

It has been a while since I did any programming, but I was reasonably good at it.

Certainly if I asked an AI to generate some code for me to do...

I am retired now, but I always thought upgrading in place is a brave thing to do. Brave as in risky, too risky to do for a production instance.

I once...

This will start a bit off-topic but I will get to MS eventually...

My introduction to computing was in what is now called year 11, but back then was year 5...

I wouldn't be surprised if Broadcom owned both z/OS and Windows by 2035

Times have moved on and we are now looking at EOL of Windows 10 and where to go after that.

But first a bit of history. Unlike Steve, I really liked...

Yes, the thumbprint needs to be the same on all the nodes.

I don't have an environment to test this, but I did have a fileshare on a SQL cluster in the past so I hope I can remember it all.

To have...

I don't have an environment to try this out but Johan's response may be part of the answer.  But there are some fundamental issues that need to be overcome.  I...

I found it is best to create the SPN manually, and assign to it the permissions it needs.  Doing things this way also requires that you use the same port...

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This happened to me, but in reverse.

I used to have some expertise in DB2, both on mainframe and *nix.  I attended and spoke at conferences for DB2 and was very...

Once you have a function that works, include the WITH SCHEMABINDING clause in the function definition. It will run much faster.