This blog post is part of a larger series named “Be a Better Developer”. You can check out the intro, “Stop Being a Code Monkey” to get started from the beginning. Each post will have a link to the previous ones and a final summary post will contain links to all entries in the series. Usually, multiple people work on a given code base over time and often the code we work on isn’t our own.

At the client I’m at one of the applications I’m working on still uses SQL 2000 as the database platform. There is a DTS package that the applications uses to import some data and it just so happened that I need to edit that package. About two months ago I had loaded the SQL 2008 client tools on my local machine and I didn’t have the old SQL 2000 tools anymore.

This blog post is part of a larger series named “Be a Better Developer”. You can check out the intro, “Stop Being a Code Monkey” to get started from the beginning. Each post will have a link to the previous ones and a final summary post will contain links to all entries in the series. In my last post of this series I talked about the need to put some priority on continuous learning if you want your skills to stay relevant.