Thanks it's good information and I have found GitHub Copilot to be really helpful for coding in Visual Studio with its auto-complete suggestions and it has produced some really good...

Very suitable question for the time of year!

Now all we need is one about the Halloween effect in SQL Server!

I think Dell's a good make too and RAM is the most important thing to have lots of I think, especially if you want to run lots of VMs and...

Sorry I have found the HP to be really good in terms of the keyboard and find the trackpad ok although do know what you mean about the unintended right-clicks...

My personal preference is also HP Spectres and my current model is a 13th gen one and I have ones at home running as servers which works well with the...

Yes it was a bit soul destroying and so many people copy in a lot of extra staff and I think this is often as a way to make their...

This has caught me out a few times where the same code in YYYY-MM-DD format ends up being interpreted as either DD/MM/YYYY or MM/DD/YYYY depending on the server so it...

I was offered the help of a secretary once when I was getting around 350 emails per day so it was very hard to find the important emails mixed in...

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I think standards are really important across all aspects of a database and the code written to access and update it.

I do find it annoying when I have created a...

I'm going to go for 14/11/2025 with it being a Friday

I have used this approach to insert lists of records that were deleted or updated and it is also a good way to write scripts that insert into multiple tables...

Ok thanks. I do enjoy challenging myself with the daily technical question and also pass it onto others in the technical teams I work in.

Thanks for keeping them coming!

There is also one from a few weeks ago but that one still has no body so no-one could answer it.

For this one the body has returned but where has...

SharePoint online currently requires you to enable IE mode or use IE in order for the open in Explorer option to work on the toolbar as I needed it in...

Has anyone found the body yet?