Well, the building I work in was constructed back around 1941-42 or so and I'm pretty sure the windows are still the originals (they OPEN!) which means they seal about...

Well this is shaping up to be a fun end-of-the-week...

Wildfires up in Ontario, Canada, are sending their smoke down here to Michigan, resulting in it looking foggy in the Detroit...

At my job we're in the midst of what we suspect is a "feed ALL OF THE DATA to an AI" project.  The reason we only suspect is that we...

thx jasona.work. by backward compatibilty i meant that flavor that we used to set explicitly. its been a long time but as i recall you can set it manually...

thx jasona.work. so you are saying that if both the dev and prod are backward compatible to version xxxx, newer features in the dev's version will still work? features...

The problem is, while a newer version might report a particular command is "deprecated," that doesn't mean it's not going to work (your example of CONCATENATE, for instance.)  Where the...

I've finally started looking seriously at what it's going to take for me to have an enjoyable retirement and finding that between some work-politics things and the push-push-push to AI...

Just a heads up for Steve Jones, the links to comment on the editorial from today "Would You Retire Rather Than" aren't working.

And I was all set to comment.  🙂

Honestly, because from the sound of your post you're just going to be creating Agent jobs to do the backups and using the undocumented scripts, I'd agree with ratback, use...

About 15 years ago, I was hired as the first DBA at a small medical records company.  My first project was to assess the overall environment and make suggestions/changes...

Well, it's happening to me...

I'm starting to use AI.  Granted, I used it to trim a resume down to 2 pages to fit the requirements of an online application system,...

A possible solution for you, although I'm pretty sure there's going to be issues with it, there's going to be issues with any solution to this.

Start with your idea of...

One has to wonder as well, how much of this push to use AI on the tech side stems from businesses STILL often seeing IT not as the force-multiplier it...

You're quite welcome.