Recently we had an M2M outage at work, which caused annoyance and downtime for many of my users. It took the better part of a day to investigate and solve. As you can imagine it was a stressful time, executives were angry, etc; which was particularly difficult for me because I am a perfectionist when [...]
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The ethics of business intelligence is a touchy subject that many people don’t want to talk about. However, more attention in the past several years has been given to this subject mostly due to ethics scandals at huge companies such as Enron, Tyco, and WorldCom. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act came about because of such [...] Recently I was tasked with automating a reporting process which collects repair metrics. The current method of tracking repairs in my company was tedious and time consuming. As is typical, the method used to track this was Excel Hell. Every week someone would run the Received Goods (RPREGO), Inventory On-Hand by Location [...]
This is the point where we all lie and list a strength and tell the interviewer that our biggest weakness is that we just work too darn hard or some other such tripe. To be honest, I don’t know why they ask this question and what they really expect for an answer. [...] I’ve been working with M2M for nearly 12 years, and they’ve made very little progress with permissions. I’ve placed several change requests regarding permissions, which have gone unheeded. Smaller companies with only a few M2M users will probably not relate to some of these issues, but they become major problems when you administer 40+ users [...] I performed a test migration to M2M Version 6.0 the other day on a test server. After your test server is set up, one of the first steps is to run DBSCAN on your Util database. My scan found a few records with data corruption. One sample record is below:
11/21/09 03:17:39 PM:dbScan: Data Corruption Detected! Last year about this time I referenced the famous WKRP Thanksgiving Day Episode and listed those things for which I am thankful. Well, I’ve decided to update my list for this year as a lot has changed since then. I’m thankful to have a secure position in this awful economy and that my career is [...] As a follow up to my last post in which I said that you need to be careful following the free advice given by another customer; you should also be wary of what M2M Tech Support tells you. They can and do make mistakes. I can’t tell you how many times they’ve given [...] Since I began this blog a little over a year ago, I’ve had many people contact me for help and advice. I do my best to help them if I can, but one type of message never ceases to amaze me. It goes something like this: Sir, “Can you please help me? [...] I love this chart, which I borrowed (stole) from Coding Horror. A major project that I completed recently reminded me of it. I created a sales order auditing system that included scheduled SQL jobs, multiple triggers, VBA for M2M, and Crystal Reports. The project took me a long time to complete and [...] |
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