No. Why would I put sarcasm tags? It's just good standard practice for this sort of thing to ensure everyone is on the same page.

Not only would I follow that advice, but I'd have that discussion in person then follow up with a bulleted email of the "requirements" discussed, asking for the DBA to...

Huh. An interesting thought. Not where I was going to take the presentation, but now that you mention it, I might include a moment to discuss this.

Back to the PowerShell hijack...

I think I've figured it out (theoretically, not tested). If calling a PoSH script from SQL, you'll need to use xp_cmdshell or an OS job step...

I'm not entirely sure what...

My browser auto-opens maximized. If I un-max it, things look normal. If I maximize it again, the cut-off is gone and I can read everything fine.

I guess that's my work-around,...

I've gone back and forth. I think you need to decide if you're training or presenting. The more you are trying to actually teach a concept someone can use,...

I'm not sure what the Grace Hopper setup is. And posting powerpoint slides is kinda worthless if one subscribes to the belief that powerpoint should supplement the presentation, not contain...

Wow. I was wrong on my presentation length for Grace Hopper. They've increased the time to 30 minutes (including Q&A). So I need to sit down and completely map out...

Thanks, tripleAxe, but your answer makes no sense to me. What is msdb.dbo.agent_datetime? There is no such table in my environment.

Also, I can't load variables with file paths \ file...

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Alright, Threadzians. Who's responsible for this one?

https://www.zdnet.com/article/faulty-database-script-brings-salesforce-to-its-knees/

Seriously. What were they thinking and why didn't they test this first?

Well,...

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Corporate upgraded me to Office 365 and suddenly my Skype for Business contact list is screwed up. Not only did it suddenly decide to sort people by first name instead...

The team I'm on is responsible for everything. And I don't see any job or user-created proc that is clearing backup history. So something else must be clearing it.

EDIT: The...

• This reply was modified 6 years, 7 months ago by Brandie Tarvin.

Wow...

Thanks, everyone. I appreciate the references. This makes this even harder because I just found out corporate DBAs will have the password to the account that will own the keys...