I've only been in IT for 15 years and at the ripe age of 48, I know that's a very short time for many of you, but I've learned way...

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Oh, I just found Jeff's response to be "poetic" so I alliteratively responded to keep mine poetic too.  Don't worry, I won't...

Well, you placed this poetic perfection like a placard to polarize the...

Good eye. ...

One takeaway I had from your post is that you use tables in another DB and reference them in the main DB via synonym.  We have a web...

It took 40 people more than 10 days to get us back into business by reloading 3 weeks of files in the correct order, doing the processing on them,...

After getting a terrible keyboard layout on my current laptop, I'll never buy another one without first paying attention to EVERY key.  I didn't notice this before buying a Lenovo...

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I have been using the Lenovo ThinkPad W510 for a long time with 32 GB RAM, afterwards I went with the ThinkPad P51 and 64 GB RAM. Didn't take...

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I thought I'd report that I've been happily using a separate dataset (called DesignNotes) in all of my reports for the last 9 months with no problems.  I've also migrated...

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First of all, thank you for taking the time to post your experience and share what you've learned.  It's how many of us grow.  One thing you may have overlooked...

I never thought it was scriptable. Sometimes Easter is end of March, sometimes early April. Not ideal, but I have a calendar reminder to revise next year's bank holidays...

We looked at SAP too, along with 14 other software offerings.  Choosing an ERP is no small task, in fact, it's the hardest thing I've ever had to do.  I...

We've only ever used FTS for our website's search feature and I don't have any other experience for comparison, but I do know we'd miss the thesaurus feature (\Program Files\Microsoft...