I've always have gotten the reading from our legal staff that setting up...

quackhandle1975 (8/5/2014)

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One thing I've noticed in 99.999% of the SQL people I meet @ Bits/Saturdays/Relays/SQLFAQ/etc is how approachable they are and how humble they are, you can ask them...

The one that I've seen our development team doing and it worked rather nicely: They would never delete a column. They would just add them. Then copy data from the...

Andrew Kernodle (7/29/2014)

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Haha, I'm actually kinda giddy to take a shot at this now :-P. Well, planning, setup, and budgeting come first, so I'll try to cast out some...

George Hepworth (7/24/2014)

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Rumors of the demise of Mark "Access" Twain have been rampant since shortly after the release of Access 2.0 in 1994. Such rumors have never been more true...

scottgem (7/22/2014)

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I have a tool that will read the user name and password from an mdw file. It was freely distributed. As to it being buggy, I must admit, I'm...

Well my former job in a lower tier bank we had 27 stove piped systems. Everything pretty much ended up in accounting. So we built an Access app that...

The one that I ran into today building a sproc. I have data that is imported into staging table. But depending on the customer they can give us data with...

Then another problem that occurs that the users do not know to ask.

I developed a conversion utility from our old software to the new system. Then a later step is...

Well my fun was getting my laptop setup for telecommuting. Our company’s HQ is around Toronto. Then we have an office around Cincy that I was working out of. We...

A lot of stuff I do is ETL from other databases or plain old CSV files into our correctly designed actual DB the was designed correctly. Sometimes it is...

My SW company was bought by another SQ company about 18 months ago. So we had to build a system to extract data from the old DB to the new...

RobertMurch (6/17/2014)

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I got thrown out of the DR process for "making waves". I made the statement that planning for recovery at a DR site, having the hardware ready etc etc...

I've never done powershell. But know dos batch files inside and out anymore. I've used them to setup a full monitoring system on our hosted systems that provide a daily...

Yet Another DBA (5/1/2014)

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I have interviewed people for DBA positions and have had them not knowing what a null is/ biggest query they have ever written being 25 lines/ not...