Piggybacking tangentially off of Tim Mitchell’s (blog, Twitter) SSC editorial Turn a Bad Job into a Good Experience…yesterday I got some user questions about the department’s new password policy. The policy is admittedly complex, especially considering half the place had been using the “kid’s name and ‘password’ scribbled on a post-it” philosophy of security. And, […]
Category: NonSQL
Tip: Connect to dBASE files in SSIS
This has come up several times in the course of the last TWO jobs, so I’ll put it here for my reference (and yours). To use a dBASE file as a source in SSIS (and I know you want to), in your new connection manager: Select Native OLE DB\Microsoft Jet 4.0 OLE DB Provider . […]
You Earn More Than I Do
Here is an article on the differences between women’s and men’s pay, sent to the WIT group by Denise McInerney (Twitter) of SQLPASS. It says, in part: In the Harvard Business Review blog, Avivah Wittenberg-Cox wrote: “…..media too often focus on small, sensational and misleading parts of the story, including aspects like the wage gap.” […]