I am currently adding a database to an app that has used a mixture of application and user defined directories containing a variety of text and binary files. The original...

Plugging an unknown USB drive into your computer is one of the daftest things anyone can do. Besides the risk of viruses and malware there were some around earlier this...

Maybe the Boxing Day sales will become White Saturday! 🙂

Heals (11/26/2015)

mjh 45389 (11/26/2015)

Likewise! 🙂

I have though got bored with endless Black Friday e-mails during the past...

Likewise! 🙂

I have though got bored with endless Black Friday e-mails during the past week. And yesterday...

Totally agree with Gaz! The last two major products I have worked on have had major technical debt so that an simple mod or bug fix runs into days or...

David.Poole (11/19/2015)

Steve Jones - SSC Editor (11/19/2015)

Good note, but I wouldn't disparage someone as an actor meaning they have no knowledge. A certain former guitar player from Queen is a...

About a decade ago I was working on a project that used MS servers and an MS-SQL database. Pseudo real-time data related to this was collected on a Red-Hat server...

I have used PowerShell without problem but I had occasional problems when switching between C and LISP (about 20% of my time). Whenever possible I used to try and set...

I was lucky in that in my first proper IT job (I had been doing mathematical modelling in Fortran about 25% of my time in my previous scientific role) that...

I have used a number of OS's, programming languages and variants of RDBMS over the last thirty years. At one time I was using Windows XP, OSX and RedHat, programming...

Sadly the same here. My uncle's wife found...

Thirty years ago I started my IT career after doing my MSc in IT. One of the modules was RDBMS. The company I started my IT career with had a...

I have to use 'Dia' as it is free (open source) software. Like the previous comment about Visio I find that 'Dia' is quite awkward for the full schematic. It's...

I find I have to very disciplined to make sure the development environment and ERD are kept in sync. The thing that makes it awkward is that you may update...