I started my IT career in the mid-80s using various flavours of UNIX. The most impressive and stable was IBM's AIX running on an RS6000. I then went the Windows...

I think the whole area of security is not taken seriously by far too many organisations and individuals. On one occasion I set up a number of PCs and afterwards...

This reminded me of a situation I was in over a decade ago. Many people had been axed in a restructure and I felt that the only reason I survived...

I try to get things in writing but is usually fails as our senior management tend to respond to an email a few hours later by walking into the office...

At the weekend I talked this over with two former colleagues. We are all of a similar age and worked together for about three years in the mid-nineties. Our feeling...

I took on one job thinking that I would involved in a port from DEC/VAX-VMS/Oracle to new hardware running Windows/C++/MS-SQL and that the port would involve a major revamp...

When I first started in IT I was given time for learning and also attended a few courses. This petered out at 40! In my last job (everything I...

Eric M Russell (11/30/2016)

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If we eliminate cows as a source for green-house gas emissions then next up will be human produced gas emissions... particularly that of west coast vegetarians.

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I have been asked to allow numbers in the names. At first I thought that this was to cope with typically multiple John Smiths, e.g. John Smith27. This is doable...

Or maybe MySQL. We run MySQL on a Linux server and MS-SQL on a Windows one as the second server has...

Well it's not global warming as Mr Trump said it did not exist!"

Have a good...

Currently I work in a very small company so being the DBA is only part of my job remit.

In a previous company I had issues with two people who had...

I see this as a good thing. My previous company used SQL Server but moved away from it for 'cloud' deployment because they changed OS because of other Windows issues....

I can only see it being of use if it is done well. Over the last thirty years the bane of my life has been people who have done a...

If the working day extends over eight hours the booster pack is pizza. With junior staff it is useful to fi shorter doors so you can lock them in and...