This is more a personal anecdote than a response to the question, but perhaps it presents an interesting contrast.

I worked IT for over 40 years, first as a developer, then...

• This reply was modified 3 months, 1 week ago by jahtez.

The first time you find yourself with a manager who is clearly younger than you are can be one of those moments in life where "I'm getting older" really hits...

Not as background.  But when I'm trying to find a problem, I'm combing through n lines of code, and I KNOW the answer is right there staring me in the...

While we would like releases to be scheduled proactively and on a schedule that makes out lives easier, security updates, in most instances, are reactive and driven by external events...

• This reply was modified 2 years ago by jahtez.

Be a person who doesn't just rest on intimate knowledge of their chosen technology path, but also has a serious grasp of the business logic driving the need for that...

The likely issue is that you have a source and target that are two different data types (ANSI and UTF8).

Perhaps you ran an SQL statement to dump data from...