I am not talking about licensing cost, I am talking about the cost in IT work hours. If you want to minimize the labor cost of upgrades, then upgrade with...

Wow, this is a fantastic article, suitable for framing in the management conference room.

The longer you put off an upgrade, the more the upgrade will cost. If the system is viable in the future, upgrade it.

In terms of shrinking the budget, I would advise the non-profit to focus more effort on fundraising.

I only use SQL Server Express for desktop or workgroup applications. If you implement in enterprise production, I suspect that you don't know what you are doing. Windows Scheduler is...

Great article Steve and the comments on this thread are fantastic.

My consultant advice about *ux: If you have onboard Unix staff, consider it, otherwise no. The reason has nothing to...

Management bears complete responsibility for ethics. Any notion that they do not is preposterous.

Other client: I need to know which objects are not inactive. You can make the display text say any dang thing the client wants to see. That doesn't mean you...

print CAST('True' as bit)

print CAST('False' as bit)

IsActive strongly implies a Boolean, use the right datatype for the data without exception, I don't care how much storage on disk. If the datatype has multiple valid values, it...

Programmers who ignore their DBA consultants are idiots.

0 = True is not just dumb, it is malicious. I want programmers like this far from my team.

On my quantum server, the bit can be both 0 and 1 at the same time.

Positive only, for readability. Is means the column is a bit.

I guess my experience has changed the way that I evaluate workplace problems. I used to be unhappy that the system was a piece of junk and nobody in management...