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  • RE: WWBOD

    I might hold up on the second and fourth one if I were you. I have heard with some state lotteries that it is taking up to 1-2 years to...

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  • RE: WWBOD

    Stephanie Giovannini (1/13/2012)


    I'd quit my job and wouldn't work for an employer ever again. No commute, no parking garage, no ID badge, no "desk" (two-sided "cubicle" in a hallway, banquet...

    "Technology is a weird thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other. ...:-D"

  • RE: WWBOD

    I'd retire, travel around the world, and when I got bored with that, I would teach SQL Server, but only to interested adults (no kids) and totally on my own...

    "Technology is a weird thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other. ...:-D"

  • RE: Coding More Carefully

    David.Poole (1/12/2012)


    If you changed the environment in which someone works then they change the way in which they work. That is in human nature.

    I tend to agree with this...

    "Technology is a weird thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other. ...:-D"

  • RE: The Stubborn DBA

    Evil Kraig F (1/11/2012)


    Phil Factor (1/11/2012)


    And what if, despite what your rational mind says, you can't even leave the problem alone when you're asleep?

    Yes, it happens to me sometimes. I...

    "Technology is a weird thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other. ...:-D"

  • RE: Cloud Safety

    I agree on #20, that is a question that the folks on "your" side need to assess if that is indeed the case, and although I agree with the provider...

    "Technology is a weird thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other. ...:-D"

  • RE: The Stubborn DBA

    Evil Kraig F (1/11/2012)


    To toss in an "It Depends"...

    ...you have to keep the time to solution in perspective. .... There's a balance though. Sometimes I'll take a problem home...

    "Technology is a weird thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other. ...:-D"

  • RE: Cloud Safety

    "how can you make sure your cloud provider can protect your data?"

    Very simple, ask your Cloud Provider about 20 or so very pointed questions, and make sure you are satisfied...

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  • RE: The Stubborn DBA

    And there's never a good way to tell up front when that time will have been productive and when it won't.

    Sure there is. You put a realistic time frame...

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  • RE: The Stubborn DBA

    So sometimes, digging allows you to determine what's actually going on and address that, rather than creating layers of workaround.:-D

    I agree, but this has to be tempered with realistic time...

    "Technology is a weird thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other. ...:-D"

  • RE: The Stubborn DBA

    Problems, solutions, and research to those solutions have to be "time based". It would be nice to "research everything to death" until you figured out exactly what made it tick...

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  • RE: SharePoint - Subversive?

    "How else can I account for the seemingly apparent lack of interest in allowing all team members to have a venue in which to share what they know or offer...

    "Technology is a weird thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other. ...:-D"

  • RE: Read-only Data

    I have worked with read only data, particularly read only databases all the time and my concerns are not so much from the backup side of things, but more from...

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  • RE: Are Auto-Updates Good?

    But Microsoft better be very careful with these updates.

    :w00t::w00t::w00t:Steve that is the best laugh I have had since New Years! Thanks man.

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  • RE: Are Auto-Updates Good?

    Auto-Updates IMHO are generally a BAD idea and the reasons are plentiful, just google it and see all the reasons, but here are just a few to start:

    Sometimes updates happen...

    "Technology is a weird thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other. ...:-D"

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