What do you mean 'still using'?  Historically, my first 'portable drives' were on an IBM 360-50 and an IBM 360-30 at work about 1968 with four storage units with two...

Thanks.  I think I got a workaround by removing the second monitor in Win, forcing Ssms to open on the one, than re-registering the second monitor.  Had another app doing...

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I'm trying to learn to do better at writing things down in a planner. But then I get too busy to write it all down and things lapse or...

You've all heard me say this  before, but I will repeat that the greatest thief of time at work is meetings.  My smart-ass comment has been that if a meeting...

In my last position some of the DBAs and a couple mainframe developers who had offices close by around our server room came to regularly do social things for several,...

To follow up on my first response. My wife and I did over the years of OUR careers actually invest in 529 plans for five grandchildren.  The benefits of these...

No way in hell!  More unpaid education loans.  Sounds like a great way to divide families and lose friends. Should have saved this for April Fool's Day.

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No, thanks.  Next time you go to your doctor, just picture him looking through all the crap some kid like Sam Bankman-Fried sitting in his basement at the computer wrote...

Once in my career I switched commpanies and started an IT operation totally using IBM systems and a new language, then two years later guided the decision to change the...

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This may be the most unusual life-planning story you have ever heard.  My wife handles most of our appointment scheduling and social planning, especially while we are riding around town...

Steve, I do really appreciate your thoughts on use of our time wisely and add my encouragement to you all to do exactly that.  My wife and I are in...

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Good enough can truely get you in a fix.  I have an access database in the old .mdb version and an application on an old Win 7 machine that I...

At a certain point it becomes a question of effort vs reward.  How many things is it worth trying to parameterize that will almost certainly never be used?  Does...

Had a laugh that was 'good enough'  last week.  I bought an item at a local business, and got home to find an email receipt issued by an account called...

At the risk of 'negative feedback' I'll add that after a couple years, I still get the error rejecting my first post effort with "Did you really mean to do...