In addition our database backups, the infrastructure team has setup a process to copy VM host image backups to Azure for both database and application servers. It's not useful for...

If I'm not putting out a fire, responding to a request, or working on a deliverable, then I'm learning something. I believe that most of us have more opportunity and...

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I believe that many organizations would gladly pay a moderate fee to have their files decrypted, especially if the trusted the guy on the other side.

From what I recall, there are two ways to query SQL Server from MS Access. One method is to create linked tables, where you pulls rows across the wire and...

I'd put MS Access in the same general database classification as Excel, FileMaker, FoxPro, or even SQLite. It does "just work" - but only within a narrow scope of use...

I feel like job/candidate searching is a lot like dating - there is a good deal of marketing and self delusion in both the resumes and job descriptions.

an ex  colleague of mine used to turn up in knee length shorts, Hawaiian shirt, flip flops and a lot of "bling" -

the directors put out an email about...

If I were going to dress up for Halloween, I'd wear a black hoodie with one of those white "Guy Fawkes" style hacker masks. As a prop, I'd carry around...

For my personal email, I rely solely on MS Outlook app on my iPhone. I like the new feature where it consolidates all email accounts into a single view with...

Honestly, I don't even open 90% of the mail that lands in my personal Hotmail account, and the same goes for work email. I can judge the relevance of an...

I've been a full time employee for most of my career, but what makes contracting appealing for me isn't necessarily the prospect of more money but rather the opportunity to...

This is why we should comment our source code and version control checkins - so those who follow us can better understand why we did things the way we did.

Cloned or masked environments are not generally for production support. They are typically for development, QA, or maybe production reporting purposes. For the scenario you've described above, it would be...

Our development and QA teams use Redgate SQL Clone for doing a lot of the stuff that was previously done using full database restores. It saves disk space and also...

"..I wonder how many of you worry about employment as you get older.."

I have a handful of observations and opinions about this.

1. The average lifespan of an IT employee today...