Did the DBA who refused the stored procedure say why?

The "why" is critically important.

I had a similar situation with a SAN administrator. When I sat down with them and...

I am playing with Apache Spark and the amount of stuff that this does under the hood for you which you would normally expect to write for yourself is mind...

I very much agree with Steve that culture and behaviour has to change if you are going to get the best out of a technique or toolset.

The building of a...

I'm struggling to see the point of keyless ignition. I go walking in the hills and live in fear of getting the fob wet. Batteries and moisture do...

I trust a black box to do the same thing for the same inputs infallibly. Whether what it does is infallible is another matter.

Tesla are trying to capture all...

Grant Fritchey (9/26/2016)

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Thanks everyone for the feedback. I was hoping someone would come in and argue in favor of hiding information since it sometimes seems to be considered a valid...

Utter lunacy.

A lot of our stuff is on dashboards which display on 55" monitors around the building. Production metrics need to be displayed where devs can see them

The things that hamper me are not having a properly configured workstation and tools set up and correctly configured. This means that I have to learn how to set...

Asimov's 3 laws sounded good until Giskard defuced the need for a superseding law zero. A robot shall not harm humanity or through inaction allow humanity to come to...

As Gail said, if we can do it manually then it is a case of analysing what it is we do then automating it.

Let us suppose that we have a...

I think you have to make the determination as to whether your legacy software is stable or whether it is stagnant. The latter is when you are scared to...

..and enable them. The problem might not be the staff...

Probably a bit off topic but commands like xp_dirtree have been listed as unsupported for over a decade but have been available in all that time.

Why don't Microsoft...

BULK INSERT? Or are you lamenting the absence of BULK EXPORT?

I quite like MySql LOAD XML INFILE...

Publish Jeff!

I'd ask what people wanted to use xp_cmdshell for. There are loads of things you can do within SQL Server, for me a request to make calls out...