Thanks. It's a challenge, but it hasn't been too bad most of the time. Lots of just plugging away, which I'm good at. Plus no co-workers to distract me 😉

The...

There isn't a great way to do this. You'd probably need to think about importing as ints, then transforming with the appropriate number of 0s ahead of things based on...

Gary Varga (10/20/2014)

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When thinking of costing, we cannot forget what are ongoing costs, year on year, and what are repeated costs, upgrade after upgrade. If we remember this then sometimes...

webrunner (10/20/2014)

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Thanks, Steve, for this editorial.

To me it seems that cost is a big factor along with the relevant features of each platform. ...

Oracle can be really expensive to...

Eirikur Eiriksson (10/18/2014)

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The slowness of this website has gotten a lot worse for the past few days, hardly workable as it is. I'm not going to speculate on the causes...

Yet Another DBA (10/20/2014)

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courtney.smith (10/20/2014)

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I'd argue against that. I don't think that expensive and difficult are really on the same wavelength / scale for comparison.

What's so expensive about MS...

MalD (10/19/2014)

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Another consideration is, the correct tool for the job.. Having recently been involved with a mapping application was astounded in the the maturity of the Postgres implementation of...

Always, but not sure how to coordinate things.

Thanks, I'll take a look, but it might be a week with travel out of town this coming week.

Thanks. We've had a few issues, and we're trying to track down the problems.

Go KC. No real dog in the fight, but would be nice to see them win and saw a game in Kaufman this year.

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I suspect slowness now is the synchronous call to the Askimet app on posting. I've asked if we can change this to a background thread that looks for changes in...

aochss (10/15/2014)

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I gauge the success and satisfaction of the programs I work based on the following:

- Have my changes made life easier for the end users of the...