December 4, 2019 at 3:52 pm
Often times around here we get the "urgent" request which will be followed up with a response asking for clarity about the details of what they actually want. And so many times it will go several months before they finally get around to providing the details of what was so urgent. Other times no response ever comes. Very few things are truly urgent in the real world. They are just the current most important thing because that is what they are thinking about right now.
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December 4, 2019 at 4:14 pm
ARGH!
So, I'm selling a house and I'm going to have a bloody ulcer before it's sold at this rate.
First, weird issues with the title and a mortgage that was paid off but still listed on a lookup site.
NOW the BUYER is having some issues and our closing has been pushed back from last week, to this week maybe by Friday, to now sometime maybe early next week...
But, at least some good news for this week, we've got the systems hooked up to begin prepping for our migration to a "cloud" which is basically using backups of our data to do it (we're standing up new VMs in the cloud.) So I now have TOTAL CONTROL (/insert maniacal cackle) of my database backups! It also helps that the migration devices do the backups in WAY less time than the backup system our NEC uses (looks like it does a "snapshot" then backs up the snapshots, as well as the transaction log backups)
If anyone has heard of "Rubrik" backup systems, that's what we're using. The truth of how good it is will be when I do a local test restore, of course.
December 4, 2019 at 5:32 pm
Is anyone one else still getting directed to the wrong page of responses? I was on the 'Active Threads' view and clicked on the link for Josana.work response on this thread and it took me to the prior page(4,279). This is very annoying, thought it would've been fixed by now.
Even posting this response takes me back to the prior page.
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December 4, 2019 at 5:43 pm
Is anyone one else still getting directed to the wrong page of responses? I was on the 'Active Threads' view and clicked on the link for Josana.work response on this thread and it took me to the prior page(4,279). This is very annoying, thought it would've been fixed by now.
Even posting this response takes me back to the prior page.
Yes, I landed on the earlier page when responding to your post, slightly odd to say the least.
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BTW: do you have any insight information on Jason, has he gone a 180 circle or was Jasona just a misspelling?
December 4, 2019 at 5:46 pm
BTW: do you have any insight information on Jason, has he gone a 180 circle or was Jasona just a misspelling?
Heh. First name, last initial run together.
Edited to add: Also, I get the preceding page as well, both when hitting the link from the forum to go to the last post, and when I submitted this post
December 4, 2019 at 6:23 pm
It pisses me off, as well. It does help my scheduling of "urgencies" though. 😀 I keep solid records of such abuses of the word "Urgent". I'm also not afraid of confronting the manager of such individuals and educating them on why such "Cry Wolf" urgencies can actually hurt the business. Such things don't actually happen to me often anymore because they know that if it turns out to be another abuse of the word "Urgent", I'll cut off their head, crap in their neck, and use their head for an ashtray. 😀
Ditto for me, though not the head cutting part. I document, and let them know I'm not jumping for anything again if they abuse the urgent word. I'll happily defend my slower pace to management.
December 4, 2019 at 6:27 pm
Is anyone one else still getting directed to the wrong page of responses? I was on the 'Active Threads' view and clicked on the link for Josana.work response on this thread and it took me to the prior page(4,279). This is very annoying, thought it would've been fixed by now.
Even posting this response takes me back to the prior page.
It was fixed, then regressed somewhere. It's an open bug again
December 4, 2019 at 7:00 pm
If anyone is interested in a rather interesting problem has a look at this: https://www.sqlservercentral.com/forums/topic/table-function-returns-varying-number-of-records-for-an-update-statement
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December 4, 2019 at 7:18 pm
p.s. I've also adopted the policy of NVO (No Verbal Orders), especially for "urgencies". It there's not a well documented ticket to support the urgency, it doesn't get done. While that sounds like I'm being nothing more than an Ahole, I'm not. It supports audits and a whole bunch of other things and I've gotten management support on that. It's actually written into our SOPs on the company WIKI.
I've kind of adopted the policy of, does it require changing production data? that's a ticket. Will it take me 30 minutes or less to get the data you want/help you and i like you? no ticket. Otherwise ticket.
December 4, 2019 at 8:22 pm
Jeff Moden wrote:p.s. I've also adopted the policy of NVO (No Verbal Orders), especially for "urgencies". It there's not a well documented ticket to support the urgency, it doesn't get done. While that sounds like I'm being nothing more than an Ahole, I'm not. It supports audits and a whole bunch of other things and I've gotten management support on that. It's actually written into our SOPs on the company WIKI.
I've kind of adopted the policy of, does it require changing production data? that's a ticket. Will it take me 30 minutes or less to get the data you want/help you and i like you? no ticket. Otherwise ticket.
Even if I like them I request a ticket. Too many times that less than 30 minute original request balloons to a half a day when they keep asking for multiple revisions because they didn't know what they really wanted.
Sorry Jasona.work I misspelled your name in my last post. Thanks Eirikur for pointing out my mistake. 🙂
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December 4, 2019 at 9:02 pm
I wonder whether I will be cast out from The Thread as a maverick grammar nutjob for suggesting that NSO would be a better abbreviation, given that 'verbal' means pertaining to words (be they written or spoken).
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December 4, 2019 at 9:29 pm
I wonder whether I will be cast out from The Thread as a maverick grammar nutjob for suggesting that NSO would be a better abbreviation, given that 'verbal' means pertaining to words (be they written or spoken).
I'll see your grammatical nutjob and raise you two. 😀 According to definition "1.c" at the following link, verbal means not including any action. So NVO still works for tickets because it requires them to take action and write the ticket. Further, definition 3 specifically quantifies the difference as being "spoken rather than written".
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/verbal
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December 4, 2019 at 9:33 pm
Phil Parkin wrote:I wonder whether I will be cast out from The Thread as a maverick grammar nutjob for suggesting that NSO would be a better abbreviation, given that 'verbal' means pertaining to words (be they written or spoken).
Did I miss something some where?
About getting orders for urgencies. He's suggesting to use NSO (No Spoken Orders) instead of NVO (No Verbal Orders) as mentioned by Jeff.
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