May 16, 2016 at 10:41 am
GilaMonster (5/16/2016)
jasona.work (5/16/2016)
Somedays, I envy you folks living in places that don't have "weather" like what we've had these past couple weeks...Last weekend, we had the windows of the house opened up, letting in the fresh air...
This weekend, we turned the furnace back on and saw a few scattered snowflakes...
It's winter here.
The highveld is a summer rainfall region.
It rained all weekend.
Weather in this area went from 88 degrees as the high (Fahrenheit) to highs of 43 degrees within the same week. Stayed in the low 40s for several days and right back to 85 without much notice (one day was 40s, the next was 85). Right now we are uncertain if it is spring, fall, winter, or summer.
Jason...AKA CirqueDeSQLeil
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May 16, 2016 at 10:43 am
Lowell (5/16/2016)
Complete non-sequitur here guys, but I'm rather pleased with myself.I just got my MCSA after taking 70-463 Implementing a Data Warehouse in SQL Server 2012/2014.
I had set a mental goal for myself to get it by January of this year, and while the date slipped a bit, i finally got it all done.
Congrats
Jason...AKA CirqueDeSQLeil
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I have given a name to my pain...MCM SQL Server, MVP
SQL RNNR
Posting Performance Based Questions - Gail Shaw[/url]
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May 16, 2016 at 11:47 am
SQLRNNR (5/16/2016)
GilaMonster (5/16/2016)
jasona.work (5/16/2016)
Somedays, I envy you folks living in places that don't have "weather" like what we've had these past couple weeks...Last weekend, we had the windows of the house opened up, letting in the fresh air...
This weekend, we turned the furnace back on and saw a few scattered snowflakes...
It's winter here.
The highveld is a summer rainfall region.
It rained all weekend.
Weather in this area went from 88 degrees as the high (Fahrenheit) to highs of 43 degrees within the same week. Stayed in the low 40s for several days and right back to 85 without much notice (one day was 40s, the next was 85). Right now we are uncertain if it is spring, fall, winter, or summer.
My azelas had that problem earlier this year, and last year too. They kept trying to bloom only to be killed by the frost the following day(s). Global warming has hit the middlin' temperate zones hard with this back-n-forth.
May 16, 2016 at 12:08 pm
Lowell (5/16/2016)
Complete non-sequitur here guys, but I'm rather pleased with myself.I just got my MCSA after taking 70-463 Implementing a Data Warehouse in SQL Server 2012/2014.
I had set a mental goal for myself to get it by January of this year, and while the date slipped a bit, i finally got it all done.
Congrats, that's a tough one.
May 16, 2016 at 12:14 pm
SQLRNNR (5/16/2016)
GilaMonster (5/16/2016)
jasona.work (5/16/2016)
Somedays, I envy you folks living in places that don't have "weather" like what we've had these past couple weeks...Last weekend, we had the windows of the house opened up, letting in the fresh air...
This weekend, we turned the furnace back on and saw a few scattered snowflakes...
It's winter here.
The highveld is a summer rainfall region.
It rained all weekend.
Weather in this area went from 88 degrees as the high (Fahrenheit) to highs of 43 degrees within the same week. Stayed in the low 40s for several days and right back to 85 without much notice (one day was 40s, the next was 85). Right now we are uncertain if it is spring, fall, winter, or summer.
We routinely swing 40-50F from low/high in a day. I've been in t-shirts one day, snow the next, and back to a t-shirt the third.
May 17, 2016 at 1:00 am
Ray K (5/16/2016)
djj (5/16/2016)
Eirikur Eiriksson (5/16/2016)
GilaMonster (5/16/2016)
jasona.work (5/16/2016)
Somedays, I envy you folks living in places that don't have "weather" like what we've had these past couple weeks...Last weekend, we had the windows of the house opened up, letting in the fresh air...
This weekend, we turned the furnace back on and saw a few scattered snowflakes...
It's winter here.
The highveld is a summer rainfall region.
It rained all weekend.
Sounds like London (on a good weekend)
😎
70F a week or so ago, frost last two nights, 70F end of week. Many people have 1) colds, or 2) allergies, or 3) unknown sinus/throat/chough problem.
When I went to school in central New York, we had (at least) a couple of weather-related sayings:
"The four seasons here are winter, June, July, and August."
and . . .
"If you don't like the weather, wait five minutes."
It's like that in the North West of England at the moment. In an hour and a half long run the other day, I got rain, hail, snow and finished in bright warm sunshine. It's too cold at night to put things in the allotment but some of the days recently have been cracking the flags. As the weather related saying about the British Isles goes, we don't have a climate, we have weather.
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May 17, 2016 at 3:28 am
TomThomson (5/13/2016)
BLOB_EATER (5/13/2016)
ThomasRushton (5/13/2016)
BLOB_EATER (5/13/2016)
Brandie Tarvin (5/13/2016)
BLOB_EATER (5/13/2016)
This is what probed my question...YIKES!
I hope Microsoft at least thanked you for submitting to that probe.
Or maybe the company's been taken over by aliens... Tell me, BE, have you been abducted recently? Seen any strange lights?
Well, I'll be honest now, after 5 interviews rounds with them which ended in a "no" I saw more than lights.... :crazy:
And I bet they never bought you dinner or sent you flowers...
Funny enough it was me chasing them on feedback, like a teenage boy trying to make contact with that girl across the classroom.... awkward.
Should probably avoid chasing - it can make them think "If you're that desperate it must be because everyone has turned you down, so we'd be silly not to". A polite email after the interview saying something like "thank you for spending the time to interview me, I enjoyed meeting you" and not saying "I hope to hear from you soon" is ok, but any more than that will usually decrease their interest in you.
Ok I rather exaggerated. I was told I would get feedback in couple of days, So I waited 2 weeks and sent an email along the lines...." do you have any feedback? " And I was called within 10 minutes.
Still.... the conversation was awkward
May 17, 2016 at 5:17 am
I am really really beginning to hate Data Tools. Anyone with SSIS 2012 experience willing or able to comment on this problem?
May 17, 2016 at 10:51 am
Brandie Tarvin (5/17/2016)
I am really really beginning to hate Data Tools. Anyone with SSIS 2012 experience willing or able to comment on this problem?
What are you doing with data tools? In general? Just db design work? Why not SSMS?
Not criticizing, but always trying to understand why people use SSDT v SSMS for things.
May 17, 2016 at 10:53 am
Steve Jones - SSC Editor (5/17/2016)
Brandie Tarvin (5/17/2016)
I am really really beginning to hate Data Tools. Anyone with SSIS 2012 experience willing or able to comment on this problem?What are you doing with data tools? In general? Just db design work? Why not SSMS?
Not criticizing, but always trying to understand why people use SSDT v SSMS for things.
I believe that SSDT allows a bit more functionality to design SSIS packages. :hehe:
May 17, 2016 at 10:59 am
For sure, that's why I was asking. If you're doing SSIS/SSAS stuff, for sure you need SSDT.
May 17, 2016 at 11:05 am
Steve Jones - SSC Editor (5/17/2016)
Brandie Tarvin (5/17/2016)
I am really really beginning to hate Data Tools. Anyone with SSIS 2012 experience willing or able to comment on this problem?What are you doing with data tools? In general? Just db design work? Why not SSMS?
Not criticizing, but always trying to understand why people use SSDT v SSMS for things.
To build SSIS packages. It doesn't allow me to use VS 2012 for that.
Of course my desktop is EOL and I'm getting a new one so hopefully the software on the new box won't crash every time I try to close a solution or open a new one.
May 17, 2016 at 11:21 am
So just came across this interesting article on girls vs boys in technology and engineering[/url].
The most interesting line of the article (IMHO) is "The test was particularly difficult for students learning English as a second language: Five percent of them scored proficient."
I like the way Emma Brown chalks up the bad scores to a probable language barrier rather than making the blanket assumption that ESL students aren't proficient (like some reporters would).
May 18, 2016 at 5:46 am
So, are you a minion / button pusher, or are you in charge of your destiny?
This article over on The Register[/url] is rather interesting. It's aimed more at the Server / Network / Application / Storage admin types, but I think it also resonates for DBA types.
The implication that basic admin type functions are going to get steadily automated away, so you either automate them and focus more on "big picture" items, or you'll be out on the street. The tools are there, used to be you needed a team to monitor the server farms, now you need a couple people and something like one of the System Center products. Used to be you needed a team (or a couple really, really busy people) to support your desktop users, now it's all remote and tools to monitor the desktops.
Storage arrays used to require wizards and witches (no, seriously, actual wizards with long cloaks, magical staffs, and pointy hats with stars and moons on them, or witches with similar accoutrements,) now any Tom, Dick, or Jane can set up a storage array themselves with a pretty good chance of a working array when they're done (note I didn't say a WELL PERFORMING array!)
Even in the SQL world, I think this is coming. Look at all the various and sundry monitoring tools available, some of which can (I believe) be set up to take action to deal with some issues. Even MS is working towards this, with Central Management Servers and Policy-Based Config tools...
Leads me to think, if you don't know what your company is doing, even in general, with your data, at some point, you'll be automated out of a job in favor of the person who does have an idea, and uses that knowledge not to push buttons, but to push things forward...
May 18, 2016 at 8:35 am
jasona.work (5/18/2016)
So, are you a minion / button pusher, or are you in charge of your destiny?This article over on The Register[/url] is rather interesting. It's aimed more at the Server / Network / Application / Storage admin types, but I think it also resonates for DBA types.
The implication that basic admin type functions are going to get steadily automated away, so you either automate them and focus more on "big picture" items, or you'll be out on the street. The tools are there, used to be you needed a team to monitor the server farms, now you need a couple people and something like one of the System Center products. Used to be you needed a team (or a couple really, really busy people) to support your desktop users, now it's all remote and tools to monitor the desktops.
Storage arrays used to require wizards and witches (no, seriously, actual wizards with long cloaks, magical staffs, and pointy hats with stars and moons on them, or witches with similar accoutrements,) now any Tom, Dick, or Jane can set up a storage array themselves with a pretty good chance of a working array when they're done (note I didn't say a WELL PERFORMING array!)
Even in the SQL world, I think this is coming. Look at all the various and sundry monitoring tools available, some of which can (I believe) be set up to take action to deal with some issues. Even MS is working towards this, with Central Management Servers and Policy-Based Config tools...
Leads me to think, if you don't know what your company is doing, even in general, with your data, at some point, you'll be automated out of a job in favor of the person who does have an idea, and uses that knowledge not to push buttons, but to push things forward...
Tend to agree, but this will be slow change. There are still people doing things like checking logs and backups daily, and manually building servers. Less, but still jobs. Fare more than I would have thought.
Inertia is hard to resist, especially for management that often doesn't want change either.
This is the trend, but not necessarily at any individual enterprise.
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