Are the posted questions getting worse?

  • Must be something in the wind with Git/GitHub... the Lansing, MI user group is having a speaker talk about getting started with Git/GitHub.

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  • ouch. https://www.sqlservercentral.com/forums/topic/help-i-did-a-drop-and-create-blank-records-on-a-production-database

    Think this person may be out of luck, but if anyone has any bright ideas, they could use them.

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  • Youth leagues should all have a rule that if parents act out, their kids' team is penalized. I remember being a teenager and having a couple get into a fist fight. The other ref and I (he was same age as me) both looked at each other and said "that's your side of the field"

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  • jonathan.crawford wrote:

    ouch. https://www.sqlservercentral.com/forums/topic/help-i-did-a-drop-and-create-blank-records-on-a-production-database Think this person may be out of luck, but if anyone has any bright ideas, they could use them.

    I have to agree, I think they're out of luck. Hopefully it won't be just the OP that learns from their mistakes though, as it seems that they had far too many permissions on the database than they should have done; and that isn't their fault that's the DBAs.

    Really, as well, it shouldn't be them looking into how to recover the data, it should be the DBA (again) and the server admins; they will know their disaster recovery process far better than anyone. Although, considering that back up once every month or something, or seems that disaster recovery is bottom of their concerns.

    Thom~

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  • Thom A wrote:

    jonathan.crawford wrote:

    ouch. https://www.sqlservercentral.com/forums/topic/help-i-did-a-drop-and-create-blank-records-on-a-production-database Think this person may be out of luck, but if anyone has any bright ideas, they could use them.

    I have to agree, I think they're out of luck. Hopefully it won't be just the OP that learns from their mistakes though, as it seems that they had far too many permissions on the database than they should have done; and that isn't their fault that's the DBAs. Really, as well, it shouldn't be them looking into how to recover the data, it should be the DBA (again) and the server admins; they will know their disaster recovery process far better than anyone. Although, considering that back up once every month or something, or seems that disaster recovery is bottom of their concerns.

    They need three envelopes.

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  • yeah, I was trying to find a kinder response than "oof, time to polish up that resume"

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  • Sean Lange wrote:

    They need three envelopes.

    After the fact that storage is a problem too, I don't disagree. It should have been noted by the DBA that the backups were failing, but the Server Admin should have been aware that the file server (I'll assume they were backing up to a different host, as we all backing up (solely) to the host that the SQL Server Instance is on is another problem entirely) was out of disc space.

    Certainly a lot of lessons to be learned.

    Thom~

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  • Thom A wrote:

    Sean Lange wrote:

    They need three envelopes.

    After the fact that storage is a problem too, I don't disagree. It should have been noted by the DBA that the backups were failing, but the Server Admin should have been aware that the file server (I'll assume they were backing up to a different host, as we all backing up (solely) to the host that the SQL Server Instance is on is another problem entirely) was out of disc space. Certainly a lot of lessons to be learned.

     

    So many levels of fail there.

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  • Thom A wrote:

    Sean Lange wrote:

    They need three envelopes.

    After the fact that storage is a problem too, I don't disagree. It should have been noted by the DBA that the backups were failing, but the Server Admin should have been aware that the file server (I'll assume they were backing up to a different host, as we all backing up (solely) to the host that the SQL Server Instance is on is another problem entirely) was out of disc space. Certainly a lot of lessons to be learned.

    So many assumptions, including the fact that there's a DBA and Server Admin.

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  • Blargh, has something been feeding the Troll again? I really wish they wouldn't degrade the users so much when they've made such a well formatted post.

    Thom~

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  • Thom A wrote:

    Blargh, has something been feeding the Troll again? I really wish they wouldn't degrade the users so much when they've made such a well formatted post.

     

    I really wish the updated forums had an ignore user option...

  • ZZartin wrote:

    Thom A wrote:

    Blargh, has something been feeding the Troll again? I really wish they wouldn't degrade the users so much when they've made such a well formatted post.

      I really wish the updated forums had an ignore user option...

    Heh, if that came in I wouldn't be surprised if SSC looked like a replies list on my twitter feed some days:

    {Picture of a cat}
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    @ILoveCats: Aww it's cute!
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    @DogsOverCats: It's not a dog though?.
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    @ILoveCats: No, cause cats are cool
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    ??

     

    • This reply was modified 6 years, 5 months ago by Thom A. Reason: Does Plain look better?

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  • Anyone have any thoughts on this one? https://www.sqlservercentral.com/forums/topic/tde-error-server-principal-public-has-no-credential-associated-with-cryptograp

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  • Sorry for the double-posts. SSC was literally not showing any new posts by me. I finally had to reset my password twice to get it to start pretending I existed and had no idea my previous posts had gone up.

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