A company that I worked for turned one hundred when I was working there: NCR.

Steve Jones - SSC Editor (4/28/2015)

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Ralph Hightower (4/28/2015)

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In the "Understand the True Source of Problems" article:

2 – NOLOCK is required on every query. It makes things run faster.

Instead READ_UNCOMMITTED is...

In the "Understand the True Source of Problems" article:

2 – NOLOCK is required on every query. It makes things run faster.

Instead READ_UNCOMMITTED is suggested.

At one place I worked at, the...

I love it when a plan comes together.

rwaring 96203 (1/30/2015)

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Glad to hear it, Melissa! Someone will have to take over when us old codgers retire. Which for me, is four years away. But who's...

A systems administrator to administer and maintain the Mirth appliances so I can get back to developing. I'm doing more sysadmin stuff and less developing code.

I was the developer on a project where the project "leader" scheduled a weekly two hour meeting. Her meetings perpetually started 15 minutes late because she always had trouble...

roworthm (11/14/2014)

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I would have loved to have seen a shuttle launch. The UK is a bit far off. Maybe I can go and watch one of Elon Musk's little toys...

Since April 1981 for thirty years, there has been one item on my bucket list, to see a Space Shuttle launch in person.

On July 8, 2011, I was six miles...

I tried a number of years ago to get the guys in the team that I worked with to go in as "The Men in Black". But being developers,...

I was on one project where there was a weekly two hour status meeting. The meetings generally started fifteen minutes late because she was futzing with her laptop and projector;...

Try programming in APL. That is one bizarre language!

I'm looking forward to cartoons appearing again on SQLServerCentral. I miss Raw Materials.

Pick on South Carolina. The South Carolina Department of Revenue didn't encrypt the Social Security Numbers of taxpayers who filed electronic tax returns. Whoops! Now hackers have 6 million Social...

A used Canon FD 85-300 f4.5 lens that I'll use at Monday's practice round at The Masters in April 2014.

And film (I haven't switched to digital yet).