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  • RE: The Worst Code

    Eric M Russell (3/19/2014)


    David.Poole (3/18/2014)


    My thought question: Have you ever been told that your query runs too fast?

    YES. Our chief exec stood up before the entire company and said...

  • RE: SQL Server documentation using Powershell

    I am on my phone client's network is down) so please bear with me.

    Perhaps something like the following will do:

    Get-Items "C:\Source Directory\*.xml" | Convert-SqlServerInventoryClixmlToExcel.ps1

  • RE: The Worst Code

    thood1 (3/18/2014)


    Your executive was probably somewhat correct. If the normal response to activities on your inter/intranet are at one general speed then both a slow response activity AND a...

  • RE: Byte Me: Vendor Problems

    David.Poole (3/19/2014)


    We've just renamed all our alleged coffee/tea/hot chocolate to "brown", as in "I'll have a cup of brown".

    Perhaps unsurprisingly, here I ask people whether they are having black or...

  • RE: The Worst Code

    thood1 (3/18/2014)


    The article is so true. I've been a developer since before the COBAL and Fortran days and long before the interactive programming days came along. But there...

  • RE: The Worst Code

    John Hanrahan (3/18/2014)


    Well maybe close to the worst code I have ever seen was written by me. We had 16k of room to print out a large document in...

  • RE: Problem with Powershell and SQL Agent Job token

    Any chance for some more information? I understand that you won't want to post too much.

  • RE: The Worst Code

    The worst code I have seen is either by the people who are so arrogant that they feel that nothing that they can do is wrong or simply don't care....

  • RE: How Many Passwords?

    phonetictalk (3/17/2014)


    ...

    Pet peeve: when a website has password limitations. Password must be less than 10 characters, or must be alphanumeric only (no symbols) - that's a common one. Hrumpf.

    ...

    Definitely.

    I also...

  • RE: Powershell Multithreading with SQL Agent

    I think that you are using the wrong technique.

    Dependent upon how you are creating the threads there are many synchronisation techniques available to .NET code but for PowerShell in particular...

  • RE: How Many Passwords?

    The harder and more onerous the process is the more likely users will circumvent security through poor practices. There is much work to be done on this and we, as...

  • RE: Powershell within SQL 2012 SP1 can not load any modules

    This occurs when importing PowerShell 3.0 modules in PowerShell 2.0.

    I don't know if this is your issue but some forum posts talk about passing a "-version 3.0" parameter.

  • RE: #sqlhelp

    I use Twitter and Facebook for personal connections and linked in for business related ones. For information I use newsletters. For issues there are forums. I tend not to like...

  • RE: Core T-SQL

    Greg Edwards-268690 (3/12/2014)


    ...

    Some of the 'why you should know this' might be important, especially to a newbie.

    Perhaps "under what circumstances you would need to know this" might be a good...

  • RE: Copy file to folder with current date

    Steve Jones (you may have heard of him ;-)) mentioned that there is book called Learn Windows PowerShell 3 in a Month of Lunches[/url] which, if I recall correctly, some...

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