A new year has arrived and The Spotlight is now back in full swing. I wanted to start off right, with a round-up of the most popular posts of 2008. Go ahead and make a 2009 resolution to implement one of these ideas or features. PEO Donation Round-Up, v2 This was a feature I built that allows you to...

We are making several important changes to the next version of Patron Edge in an effort to meet PA-DSS rules . These changes are required in order for your organization to reach compliance with Payment Card Industry standards and continue to process credit cards. Patron Edge and Patron Edge Online will...

So you've loaded the latest SQL patches and Windows service packs, updated Patron Edge and PEO to the latest version and trimmed down transaction times , but your database just can't keep up with you. Before going out and buying a brand new, top-of-the-line server for your database, try some...

I know, I know, my posting frequency has dropped off a bit in the last couple of weeks. I've been a little swamped and unable to write as much as I'd like. I haven't forgotten about you though! Things are settling back down and I want to get back to my two or three a week schedule, but I...

One of the features of PEO 3.2.5+ and PE 3.240+ is the ability to run on SQL 2005 natively. If you are relatively new to PE/PEO and are creating a new database in SQL 2005, it will automatically be in 2005 mode (also called compatibility level 90). But if you have upgraded an existing SQL server instance...