The John Barker Mentoring Project

John Barker retired from the US Air Force in or around 1975. He returned home to rural Blackstone Virginia, in part to help care for his aging parents. He had experience in electronics as a technician and built a Southwest Technical Products M6800 computer kit. Although I’m not sure this is an accurate image of …
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XMheck (formerly “XMhell”)

09 Aug 2023 Update: Yitzhak Khabinsky and I met via Microsoft Teams to continue the conversation that started in the comments section of this post and was continued on LinkedIn.  There will likely be more to come… Why Use XML to Transfer Data? I asked Brave Search, “Why use XML?” Brave responded with a Summarizer …
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Free Webinar – Use SSIS Catalog Compare to Lift and Shift SSIS to ADF

I’m excited to announce the next free webinar in the Summer-O’-ADF series: Use SSIS Catalog Compare to Lift and Shift SSIS to ADF! Consider… Your enterprise uses Microsoft SQL Server so the powers-that-be asked the good people at Microsoft to demonstrate the latest and greatest Azure coolness. Due to competition on cost and time to …
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