When after a drunk night your code is working and yesterday's bugs are all gone.

I'm so lucky that drunken me is my coworker. (:

women...

I was wondering if anyone is familiar with SCADA or HMI systems. I'm about to make a darn big change in my life...

++ if you are still on midnight commander

In banking industry it brings up security concerns. We were in the exact same situation, however using SAS+SPDE with some custom SAS and tsql queries. Our database was merely 100TB, still it was a nightmare to assure stable performance thoroughly, because SPDE could not properly handle SMT. After having 24h++ daily flow processing times, the managers have decided to rent a 6 years old IBM power 7 with dedicated processor cores, which eventually have truncated the processing time down to 15 hours. This was a time limited contract, for 6 months. I've left the company in a short while, but this made the managers to rethink buying a more up to date server, so now the daily processing flows now are around 11,5h. Long story short, sometimes a little architecture optimization does the trick.

One does not simply export SAS to Excel (nor to any other MS Office application)

The feeling when your mobile connection is faster and also more reliable than your connection @ localhost --> everywhere I'm shufflin