I have done stuff like this for years.

I've built up a long set of SQL Agent jobs that monitor backups, disk space and similar things. It even sets up the...

EricEyster (1/17/2014)

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I have a multi-threaded .Net service that provides those capabilities to support our 4,500 store locations. Most requests complete in less than 3 minutes. Fully web driven and results...

OCTom (1/17/2014)

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I agree that it's important to consider who may work on the code in the future. If we're talking DBA's, then what can one assume that a future DBA...

I ran into a concept few years ago:

You always have a choice:

[font="Courier New"]1. Good

2. Fast

3. Cheap[/font]

Pick any two.

I've...

I can see this working at some companies.

I have been pretty much been unsupervised for close to 15 years just because of my positions. (Here's what we want you to...

I don't know the ages of your children that you have, and your distances from major metropolitan areas so some of this is going to be thrown out on the...

Jeff Moden (1/7/2014)

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You left out the most important scripting language of them all for a DBA... T-SQL. I'm shocked and mortified at the number of people that have "DBA"...

jim.drewe (12/31/2013)

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True, the IT staff makes the difference, but the management makes the IT staff.

If you are locked into the mainframe, you will probably be locked into the...

Getting sucked into the supporting the other SW our company produces and the hosted servers we have. From there I looked at the disarray that existed.

I setup an automated backup...

Jeff Moden (12/24/2013)

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So far as going in prepared goes, you've absolutely hit the nail on the head. I normally don't even let them start. I dig stuff out...

I have generally always lax about taking all my vacation days. At the same time my prior position and employer was a bank that had a requirement to take five...

I'm a participant on another website as both an "common" poster as well as having an elevated adviser position. The senior admin on the site has drilled into all of...

batgirl (12/13/2013)

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In fact, my husband and I are giving ourselves a trip to the west coast to spend the holidays with his family - it will be his first time...

I have made a habit at my last and current company that whenever I...

More like the infinite cursing.