Are the posted questions getting worse?

  • Sean Lange wrote:

    ZZartin wrote:

    I can't speak to bit bucket or Jira's CLI but I do like Jira/Confluence.  As a ticket/issue/project/document tracker it works quite well for keeping track of the status of things and who/what should be tied to what as well being pretty verbose about letting people know the status of things they're working on.  The GUI is pretty straight forward to use and includes SQLish search functionality.

    This is what they use on my wife's team and she always is raving about well it works.

    Thanks, Sean and ZZ!  It'll be nice to switch to a product that might last for a while.  I hope the transition from SVN and Mantis is a smooth one.  They made for a pretty simple system with few moving parts and little complexity.  Because of that, they probably weren't getting the reporting on how productive people were and that's probably one of the larger factors driving the change.  That's kind of amazing to me because Mantis lives in an SQL Server database and the code is open source.  It also follows the "F" word... FREE!!!!

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  • drew.allen wrote:

    Jeff Moden wrote:

    Shifting gears for a minute... does anyone have experience with BitBucket (source control) and Jira?  Rumor has it that they integrate seamlessly but have zero experience with either so I'm interested in that, general satisfaction with each product, how much it's costing, and whether or not either has a CLI (Command Line Interface). Yes, I'm going to Yabingooglehoo the hell out of both but thought I'd grab a couple of opinions from those use it, first. Thanks, folks.

    Not BitBucket, but I do have experience with Tortoise SVN and JIRA integration.  It was very well done.  You would include the JIRA ticket number when you checked in items, and it would automatically log the check-in to JIRA as well. Drew

    That's a really good tidbit of information especially since we wrote our own stuff to capture all DDL changes in all databases and write them to an SVN repository. Thanks for the info, Drew.

    --Jeff Moden


    RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
    First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
    ________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

    Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.


    Helpful Links:
    How to post code problems
    How to Post Performance Problems
    Create a Tally Function (fnTally)

  • 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.

    As a bit of a sidebar, I gave their first ever presentation and they've reserved the anniversary meeting every year for me (and I haven't missed on yet).  Pretty cool group of folks there.

    --Jeff Moden


    RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
    First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
    ________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

    Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.


    Helpful Links:
    How to post code problems
    How to Post Performance Problems
    Create a Tally Function (fnTally)

  • 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~

    Excuse my typos and sometimes awful grammar. My fingers work faster than my brain does.
    Larnu.uk

  • 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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    Cross Tabs and Pivots, Part 1 – Converting Rows to Columns - http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/T-SQL/63681/
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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.

    Luis C.
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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}
    This reply cannot be displayed
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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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    ??

     

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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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