July 20, 2012 at 4:58 pm
I hope I haven't bit off more than I can chew. I have approval to lead an internal study group meeting weekly for 2 hours to review the MCSA certification material. I have to come up with a topic schedule, prepare presentations, examples and homework, and hope I cover everything that shows up on the test. No stress, eh? It's going to be awesome fun, but particularly stressful here at the start.
July 23, 2012 at 4:13 am
Hey, guys. I am getting absolutely no response on the fundraising for the wildfire & flood victims. Any suggestions on how I can sweeten the pot to get people to help out?
July 23, 2012 at 10:35 am
Brandie Tarvin (7/23/2012)
Hey, guys. I am getting absolutely no response on the fundraising for the wildfire & flood victims. Any suggestions on how I can sweeten the pot to get people to help out?
Keep promoting it. Maybe ask other UG leaders, especially virtual ones to send a note.
I'll send a few notes out.
July 23, 2012 at 3:51 pm
capn.hector (7/20/2012)
Jeff Moden (7/20/2012)
.... I might even set it up so that SQL Server automatically sends the email for me every week. 😀week after you leave and forget the server is sending the message, management gets your email and goes HMMMM i thought he quit last week, did we shut down his email account.
BWAAA-HAAAA!!!! Hopefully, they'll keep making direct deposits, as well. 😀
--Jeff Moden
Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
July 24, 2012 at 2:23 am
Jeff Moden (7/20/2012)
Go with the flow and things will quickly get better over time.
Thanks for the hint, Jeff. Actually, I think things will get better as long as I'm able to avoid the conflict.
-- Gianluca Sartori
July 24, 2012 at 4:23 am
While waiting for some reasonable sized databases to back up before doing some upgrades, I finally managed to have a stab at answering a question today. No one else had got in there yet. No sample data etc supplied. Question a little vague but I gave it a go with the information provided. With a note saying if you supply DDL and sample data we could have a better idea.
Reply came back pretty quickly that it didn't work for certain cases.
Oh hum.
Then a regular has reiterated the "give us sample data etc" and we can get you an answer.
I think I felt about 0.001 percent of what the regular threadizens go through!
😀
Rodders...
July 24, 2012 at 4:36 am
rodjkidd (7/24/2012)
While waiting for some reasonable sized databases to back up before doing some upgrades, I finally managed to have a stab at answering a question today. No one else had got in there yet. No sample data etc supplied. Question a little vague but I gave it a go with the information provided. With a note saying if you supply DDL and sample data we could have a better idea.Reply came back pretty quickly that it didn't work for certain cases.
Oh hum.
Then a regular has reiterated the "give us sample data etc" and we can get you an answer.
I think I felt about 0.001 percent of what the regular threadizens go through!
😀
Rodders...
Lol, at least they were fairly polite in telling you it didn't work! 😀
July 24, 2012 at 4:36 am
rodjkidd (7/24/2012)
While waiting for some reasonable sized databases to back up before doing some upgrades, I finally managed to have a stab at answering a question today. No one else had got in there yet. No sample data etc supplied. Question a little vague but I gave it a go with the information provided. With a note saying if you supply DDL and sample data we could have a better idea.Reply came back pretty quickly that it didn't work for certain cases.
Oh hum.
Then a regular has reiterated the "give us sample data etc" and we can get you an answer.
I think I felt about 0.001 percent of what the regular threadizens go through!
😀
Rodders...
Aww. Initiation is grand, ain't it? @=)
Welcome to the club (tent in the desert), newly branded one.
July 24, 2012 at 6:20 am
ooo, thanks Brandi!
Just stick me in the corner of the tent so I can go wibble...
Always seem to come the party (a question I can answer) far too late.
Personally I blame this on;
The time difference, I'm in England, and I'm sticking to that excuse!
The likes of Gail, Lynn, Paul et al can type faster than me!
Oh and they know a heck of a lot more than me...
😀
Rodders...
July 24, 2012 at 7:40 am
Pardon me for getting slightly technical for a moment, but if anyone out there is using Redgate's SQL Prompt and SSMS tools, are you seeing any conflicts with the two? Last machine, they played nice together. This one, they aren't. The only thing in SSMS tools I have enabled is the server color bar - that's the one piece of "save my sanity" stuff that I use it for. But since I reinstalled it, my SQL Prompt has been flaky - sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Uninstalling the SSMS tools fixed SQL Prompt - but I really, really want my color indicators back. Anyone else run into this?
On the last machine, SSMS was installed prior to Redgate, and on this one, Redgate went in first - I'm debating uninstalling both and changing the install order.
Just curious if anyone else has seen this type of thing happen.
-Ki
July 24, 2012 at 7:42 am
Kiara (7/24/2012)
Pardon me for getting slightly technical for a moment, but if anyone out there is using Redgate's SQL Prompt and SSMS tools, are you seeing any conflicts with the two? Last machine, they played nice together. This one, they aren't. The only thing in SSMS tools I have enabled is the server color bar - that's the one piece of "save my sanity" stuff that I use it for. But since I reinstalled it, my SQL Prompt has been flaky - sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Uninstalling the SSMS tools fixed SQL Prompt - but I really, really want my color indicators back. Anyone else run into this?On the last machine, SSMS was installed prior to Redgate, and on this one, Redgate went in first - I'm debating uninstalling both and changing the install order.
Just curious if anyone else has seen this type of thing happen.
The install order was the first thing I thought of. I'd say it is worth a try. I've seen that kind of thing with other products, but haven't with these specific two.
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July 24, 2012 at 8:12 am
Stefan Krzywicki (7/24/2012)
Kiara (7/24/2012)
Pardon me for getting slightly technical for a moment, but if anyone out there is using Redgate's SQL Prompt and SSMS tools, are you seeing any conflicts with the two? Last machine, they played nice together. This one, they aren't. The only thing in SSMS tools I have enabled is the server color bar - that's the one piece of "save my sanity" stuff that I use it for. But since I reinstalled it, my SQL Prompt has been flaky - sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Uninstalling the SSMS tools fixed SQL Prompt - but I really, really want my color indicators back. Anyone else run into this?On the last machine, SSMS was installed prior to Redgate, and on this one, Redgate went in first - I'm debating uninstalling both and changing the install order.
Just curious if anyone else has seen this type of thing happen.
The install order was the first thing I thought of. I'd say it is worth a try. I've seen that kind of thing with other products, but haven't with these specific two.
Thanks for the confirmation on my thought process - I'll try it and see what happens.
-Ki
July 24, 2012 at 9:22 am
rodjkidd (7/24/2012)
ooo, thanks Brandi!Just stick me in the corner of the tent so I can go wibble...
Always seem to come the party (a question I can answer) far too late.
Personally I blame this on;
The time difference, I'm in England, and I'm sticking to that excuse!
The likes of Gail, Lynn, Paul et al can type faster than me!
Oh and they know a heck of a lot more than me...
😀
Rodders...
You do know that Gail is in South Africa and Paul is in New Zealand, right? 😉
July 24, 2012 at 9:56 am
Lynn Pettis (7/24/2012)
rodjkidd (7/24/2012)
ooo, thanks Brandi!Just stick me in the corner of the tent so I can go wibble...
Always seem to come the party (a question I can answer) far too late.
Personally I blame this on;
The time difference, I'm in England, and I'm sticking to that excuse!
The likes of Gail, Lynn, Paul et al can type faster than me!
Oh and they know a heck of a lot more than me...
😀
Rodders...
You do know that Gail is in South Africa and Paul is in New Zealand, right? 😉
Well that puts Paul 12 hours or so different to me, so that stands. Plus some of his knowledge is crazy!
And Gail, well I don't think she sleeps! :hehe:
Rodders...
July 24, 2012 at 10:11 am
Going slightly mad at the moment at work.
Auditing 300 odd instances.
We have a internal database for cataloging these but;
So far they can be broken down in to the following categories
On the same domain to me and I can connect remotely
On one of 3 other domains and I can RDP
On one of 3 other domains and someone forgot to add me into the Remote Desktop group
The info in the internal db has the wrong instance names
SQL server has since been removed from the server
Or the server has an alias and i can't connect to the name listed
Managed to connect to all the local domain ones really quickly (obviously)...
I've lost count of how many RDP sessions I have logged into over the last two days.
I thought I'd almost finished and then realised I hadn't started quite at the top of the spreadsheet... Thud... 58 still to go.
Oh well there goes most of tomorrow!
Arh the light relief of SSC forums! And twitter!
Rodders...
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