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New Year – New Decade

As we begin a new year and a new decade, technology and the business marketplace will continue to grow and evolve more rapidly than ever. There exist core principles, however, that transcend changing business conditions. These include: Strong core values. This goes...

TBT – Data Driven Business

Throwback Thursday is popular on social media platforms. We usually get a good chuckle out of seeing how things have changed or stayed the same when we see the TBT tag. At Hertzler Systems, we will be using TBT to dust off articles that remain relevant, but have...

Improve your odds

Companies gamble in small ways every day. They gamble raw materials will arrive on time and will be what was ordered. They gamble customers will continue to buy products with a sustainable financial margin. Will employees be up to the task of running and if needed, adjusting production processes to maintain the quality customers require? We all roll the dice and the odds vary greatly, but in a business context, they all share a common feature, risk.

SQL Server Performance Tuning

SQL Server keeps statistics on tables and indexed views to enable it to optimize how the database engine runs the queries and improve performance. By default, these statistics are updated automatically. To view the status of the “Auto Update Statistics” setting, from...

Positioning to Win

Legendary hockey player Wayne Gretzky famously said, “Skate where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.” I picked this quote to describe our 2021 Strategic Plan for Hertzler Systems: a plan that lays out our strategies, actions, and tasks – with the goal of...

New Year – New Job

March 3 of 2019 will mark my 35th year of employment at Hertzler Systems. I like to joke that I started working at Hertzler when I was four years old! As I take over as CEO, I look back fondly on the various interactions I have had with customers as a programmer,...