Last week my work colleague set up an automatic response on her email - it received an email and returned an I will get back to you email to someone...

At work definitely NOT. Too many process critical applications that would mean upgrading or changing every single system! that would be far far more costly than any savings obtained. Also we have...

Craigmesiter I think you are bang on the mark there

Although it is tempting to think that everything is going to change tomorrow if you look back through history...

I think while the difficulty in designing interfaces is slowly reducing the move to web and the move to ever greater sizes of data sets is in the short term...

Good evidence should be corroborated whether that's from individuals (notoriously unreliable) or from autonomous systems. If those systems are under control of parties with different motives and they still agree...

I have done one biggish ETL project and that was one way rather than dynamic continual.

I have used MS Access as a unified SQL interface for transforming Oracle...

I just sleep better with source control. I've only had a couple of instances in 20 years where the master copy of an application has become irreversibly mangled to the...

As a side note what do people consider the best way of arranging tables for storing family relationships?

My journey was

Stage 1: Flat table (with total ignorance...

I understand both Xsevensinzx and sergiys points and both I think are valid.

In whatever discipline you are involved in you should be seeking to identify and learn your...

Its interesting I think at the same time as procedures with high volume data flow are being worked on there are things like protocols for low volume data flows being...

Not convinced but should put my hand up to say that I've not come across a single instance where I've needed it. Think going forward the point at which people...