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Steve Collins SSCrazy Points: 2227 More actions · Answer 1

Mission accomplished. It only took 4 days.

Aus dem Paradies, das Cantor uns geschaffen, soll uns niemand vertreiben können

Luis Cazares SSC Guru Points: 183706 More actions · Answer 2

What do you get when you get a DBA and a rapper?

This album

Luis C.
General Disclaimer:
Are you seriously taking the advice and code from someone from the internet without testing it? Do you at least understand it? Or can it easily kill your server?

How to post data/code on a forum to get the best help: Option 1 / Option 2

Lynn Pettis SSC Guru Points: 442467 More actions · Answer 3

Well, the past two days have been unique. Started with a call in the morning from a recruiter about a possible position. After a short discussion it was determined that I was a good fit for the position. This led to a call from recruiter that works with the client and after a short conversation I soon had a telephone interview scheduled for today at 1:00 PM. Shortly after this I then received an email from work notifying me that my position with Parsons was ending today as the project I was working on had no more work for me after today and they could not find any other sources of funding for my position.

So, I interview today for a potential position and at the end of the interview I am offered the position. I start work with the new company on November 16th. In addition, I am getting nice pay raise with the move to the new company. One door closes and another door opens.

One thing with this position, looks like they are definitely open for bring the database(s) into the CI/CD pipeline as the director I interviewed was very interested in what I talked about when I talked about the Redgate tools. Instead of trying to do something on my own, it looks like I will have support from higher up. So, Steve and Grant, I may finally have a company willing to work with Redgate to implement database life cycle management into the development process. Yea!!

frederico_fonseca SSCoach Points: 16250 More actions · Answer 4

frederico_fonseca

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October 24, 2020 at 1:39 pm

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That's great news Lynn - and awesome timing 🙂

Grant Fritchey SSC Guru Points: 399278 More actions · Answer 5

Good to hear Lynn. I mean the job thing. Of course I also get excited about selling Redgate software too.

"The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood"
- Theodore Roosevelt

Author of:
SQL Server Execution Plans
SQL Server Query Performance Tuning

Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004638 More actions · Answer 6

Heh... some would say that you got "Lucky", Lynn. I would say that it's where years of preparation and hard work have finally met a good opportunity (my definition of luck).

Nicely done and congratulations on what sounds like might be a great job because you're not going to have to brow-beat managers to "let" them see it your way. Of course, a higher salary also helps.

Good luck, good Sir!

--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)

Thom A SSC Guru Points: 99143 More actions · Answer 7

Lynn Pettis wrote:

So, I interview today for a potential position and at the end of the interview I am offered the position. I start work with the new company on November 16th. In addition, I am getting nice pay raise with the move to the new company. One door closes and another door opens.

Congratulations Lynn, that's great news. I appreciate how hard it is to even try and find work in the current climate, so it's wonderful news that you've already found work and that you start in the near future. I hope you enjoy the time off in the mean time. 🙂

Thom~

Excuse my typos and sometimes awful grammar. My fingers work faster than my brain does.
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Michael L John One Orange Chip Points: 27079 More actions · Answer 8

Is this person in way over their head? It seems like he was dumped in a closet and given orders to find out everything. He's been pretty prolific with posts. And most of them are scary.

https://www.sqlservercentral.com/forums/topic/comparing-consecutive-datetime-rows#new-post

Michael L John
If you assassinate a DBA, would you pull a trigger?
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http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/61537/

Thom A SSC Guru Points: 99143 More actions · Answer 9

Michael L John wrote:

Is this person in way over their head? It seems like he was dumped in a closet and given orders to find out everything. He's been pretty prolific with posts. And most of them are scary.
https://www.sqlservercentral.com/forums/topic/comparing-consecutive-datetime-rows#new-post

Seems like, from their profile, that the questions are all over the place; from basic functionality like how to use a ~~Case statement~~ CASE expression or how to find out what builds of SQL Server there are (a simple Google), to Backup maintenance and getting database sizes around a CMS.

Personally, I'd suggest that either the account is being shared by multiple people, they are selling themselves as something they are not, or they are an "accidental dba" (but I would expect them to be more open about that if so).

Thom~

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

Grant Fritchey SSC Guru Points: 399278 More actions · Answer 10

Michael L John wrote:

Is this person in way over their head? It seems like he was dumped in a closet and given orders to find out everything. He's been pretty prolific with posts. And most of them are scary.
https://www.sqlservercentral.com/forums/topic/comparing-consecutive-datetime-rows#new-post

They sure do seem over their heads, but I'm really unclear as to why & how. All we can do is try to help. And yes, people do get tossed into the deep end on this stuff. That's how I started as a DBA. Anyone who has gone through formal training & mentorship, you were lucky. Some of us were simply shoved into the fire and told to put it out. Great learning experience, but not a lot of fun at the time.

"The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood"
- Theodore Roosevelt

Author of:
SQL Server Execution Plans
SQL Server Query Performance Tuning

Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004638 More actions · Answer 11

Grant Fritchey wrote:

Michael L John wrote:
Is this person in way over their head? It seems like he was dumped in a closet and given orders to find out everything. He's been pretty prolific with posts. And most of them are scary.
https://www.sqlservercentral.com/forums/topic/comparing-consecutive-datetime-rows#new-post

Just came back from that post.. seems to qualify as a check-valve, as well. You know how well that kind of attitude used to work on the boats especially where non-quals and "delinquents" looking for sigs was concerned.

--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)

Steve Collins SSCrazy Points: 2227 More actions · Answer 12

My goal is to come up with questions

Aus dem Paradies, das Cantor uns geschaffen, soll uns niemand vertreiben können

Lynn Pettis SSC Guru Points: 442467 More actions · Answer 13

Steve Collins wrote:

My goal is to come up with questions

Weird, the message above is not the message in the email notification which is this:

My new goal is to come up with the best questions.

Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004638 More actions · Answer 14

Lynn Pettis wrote:

Steve Collins wrote:
My goal is to come up with questions
Weird, the message above is not the message in the email notification which is this:
My new goal is to come up with the best questions.

You get the original reply in the email. If the OP changes it, you don't see the change in another email.

--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)

Phil Parkin SSC Guru Points: 247180 More actions · Answer 15

Jeff Moden wrote:

You get the original reply in the email. If the OP changes it, you don't see the change in another email.

Which is quite handy on those occasions where the OP edits their original post along the lines of

Never mind. I managed to resolve this issue.