Because my company operates manufacturing facilities (many 24-6 or 24-7 operations) across time zones, after hours work is part of the job description.  It's a known quantity going in and...

I update SSMS on my laptop only rarely (still running 18.9.1).  On servers it only gets updated when there is a security fix.  Given the level of disruption involved with...

I guess I'm a luddite as I use flash drives or SD cards almost daily.

SD cards for transferring files to the 3D printers (not network enabled devices) or from any...

Long ago when I was a young IT pro and still had that fresh out of school shine, I had dreams of an exciting IT career.  I was quickly instructed...

Most stressful year of my career was 2019 due to the projects involved.  Three datacenter migrations, several distributed applications doing once a decade level upgrades with almost no back out...

As others mention the correct fix is to get them to stop the failed logins.  Depending on the size of your organization that may take awhile.  In the meantime something...

Lack of dateline and dateline only at the bottom of the post are both pet peeves of mine.  Back around 2015 when the company I work for was moving everything...

I used to support an application that did consolidated reporting of data from remote sites.  Each remote site had a small Oracle database server which contained the data.  On the...

I'll second the reliability of a Synology NAS.  I've got a DS218+ set up with a pair of mirrored WD RED 10TB drives which has been running continuously for over...

I've found that doing and creating things in the physical world is critical to my mental health.  Working in IT the vast majority of my work hours are spent doing...

What we are doing on the process control side is setting up a local VMWare appliance to handle all the Windows and Linux servers in that realm.  HP and Dell...

I have some fond memories of getting out the screwdriver to deal with the big pile of boxes from Compaq.  Was never officially my job, but the server build guys...

"My employer created an "Innovation Hub" on our Intranet where people could submit ideas, a committee would rank them for value and feasibility, and a small dedicated team would implement...

I can't think of a way to do it natively that would be robust enough that I would trust it for a production application.  Something like hand coded triggers on...

My company did a wholesale move to the cloud in 2015-2018.  We closed down all five North American data centers and did a lift and shift of everything that was...