Imagine walking through a grocery store with a pair of smart glasses on. You pick up a product you’ve never bought before. Instead of turning the package around and trying to read a tiny ingredient label, you simply look at it. Your AI assistant quietly tells you that it contains a preservative your body doesn’t […]
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Why Performance Tuning Isn’t Just “Add an Index” Every time someone asks me for help with a “slow SQL Server,” the first thing I do is not look at the query. I know that sounds backwards, but hear me out — over the years I’ve lost count of how many times I got called in […]
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If you’re running HCL Notes/Domino 14.5.1 (marketed as HCL Notes/Domino 2026), a new update just landed. HCL released Fix Pack 1 (FP1) on July 16, 2026. It’s a smaller update than a full version release, but it fixes real problems that admins have been hitting since March. I wrote about the 12.0.2 Fix Pack 8 […]
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Over the years of working hands-on as a database developer and DBA, I’ve run into more production surprises than any single course or certification ever prepared me for — queries that mysteriously slow down for no visible reason, audit requirements that show up after a schema’s already frozen, reports that quietly regress the week after […]
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The Problem: Drowning in My Own Automation As an IT Pro, I run a lot of automation. Scheduled agents, background jobs, sync processes — code I’ve written over the years that quietly does its job across various databases. Almost all of it has one habit in common: when something happens (good or bad), it […]
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If you’ve been running HCL Notes and Domino for any length of time, you already know the platform has a habit of quietly sitting on years — sometimes decades — of company knowledge. Support tickets, policy documents, contracts, project notes, client history. It’s all in there. The problem has always been finding the right piece […]
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