This isn't just true in programming, it is true in all businesses. No one is allowed to be contented in their current job. The same mindset which...

XML is a solution looking for a problem. The big mistake is thinking that data interchange is the problem. I have a data file to send that has...

There seems to be a lack of basic shell programming experience. This leads to developers looking for a complicated solution instead of a simple batch file or shell script.

I have had to spend hours re-formatting badly set out code to make it readable before I even stand a chance of understanding what it does. Some of it...

Quick bug fix.

The line "EXEC ('USE '+@DB_NAME+';"

Should be "EXEC ('USE ['+@DB_NAME+'];"

otherwise it fails if you have a database name with spaces in.

Not that any of us would do this,...

You don't have SQL Server Agent, but you do have the windows scheduler and a work around.

You need to create all of the stored procedures that you want the jobs...