Steve, et. al., I've got to ask a clarifying question. Are you speaking about applications that are outward facing? Perhaps what you're saying may not apply to in-house only applications?

The...

Thank you, Steve. I've just downloaded R for Advanced Beginners PDF.

lshanahan (7/28/2015)

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It's also well worth the effort of learning at least the basics of R. It's not difficult getting data from SQL Server (or just about any database engine)...

Thanks Luis.

Jayanth and Gail,

you're probably right, but how do I find a duplicate record when there's nothing to distinguish one from the other? I ask because when I'm sure that the...

Thank you for the admonition, Steve. I needed to hear it.

Steve, I agree with what you wrote in your article, but I also see the objections that others have written. At my old job we had to write reports giving...

Joie Andrew (7/8/2015)

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Sorry. I misunderstood. I do not think ESC will help you as that is a server feature.

What happens if you run IE with a local admin account? Can...

Matt, I definitely like your suggestion of giving the users a compiled version of the .MDB. Right now what some of them do (fortunately not many) is when they're in...

Thank you Matt, Sean and Alvin. So it seems like, at least as far as the data types go, there's really nothing to worry about, if we go from SQL...

Well, actually in this case I am trying to run it from the client. I believe the reports are all .RDLC files, so they'll run "locally".

We are trying to run...

Eric M Russell (7/1/2015)

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Rod at work (7/1/2015)

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Eric M Russell (6/30/2015)

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There is a certain type of candidate who all seem to share the same basic resume, which seems impressive on the...

Jeff Moden (7/2/2015)

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podmate (7/2/2015)

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My first career was literally saving babies (running life support on extremely premature infants).

I find that IT is a far more stressful career than medicine.

In medicine, we...

GilaMonster (7/1/2015)

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Rod at work (7/1/2015)

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I have to respond to this, especially when you say that it appears there's a DBA/Developer factory pressing out people all using the same mold. That...

Eric M Russell (6/30/2015)

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There is a certain type of candidate who all seem to share the same basic resume, which seems impressive on the surface (a tag cloud with 30...