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  • RE: Losing Data

    You could even add the creation of the self-invite to a meeting to the script.

    Gaz

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  • RE: Trust

    For too long we have rolled out the young/immature industry arguments. We must stop because quite simply: we know better.

    A lot of these industries which have compliance, regulatory and professional...

    Gaz

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  • RE: Write PowerShell Output to SQL Server Table

    The simplest way is to build up a string to execute:

    $commandText = "INSERT DiskSpace VALUES ('" + $wmiObject.GetValue(0)["SystemName"] + "')"

    $command = $conn.CreateCommand()

    $command.CommandText = $commandText

    $command.ExecuteNonQuery()

    This way is not necessarily ideal as...

    Gaz

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  • RE: The Importance of Reading Comments

    Me too...and to think they get points for spamming us too!!!

    TBH, in some ways these forums get surprisingly little. I guess that is the benefit of mandatory registration (and probably...

    Gaz

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  • RE: Do You Want a Meritocracy at Work?

    jay-h (6/14/2013)


    Richard Warr (6/14/2013)


    In the UK age discrimination in the workplace is now illegal and rightly so. Whilst there are clearly people who still believe that younger people are better...

    Gaz

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  • RE: Do You Want a Meritocracy at Work?

    fchen 34442 (6/14/2013)


    ...I would want my development team to be younger, being guided by those who have the experience to prevent, to the best of their abilities as managers, the...

    Gaz

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  • RE: Do You Want a Meritocracy at Work?

    Dave Schutz (6/14/2013)


    To me it depends on the skills that people are being rewarded for. If we are rewarding people for doing a good technical job, then I'm in favor...

    Gaz

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  • RE: Do You Want a Meritocracy at Work?

    The real demon here: ambition.

    There are those with more ambition that skills (and I refuse to consider ambition as a skill in itself even though I am ambitious at times)....

    Gaz

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  • RE: Do You Want a Meritocracy at Work?

    Richard Warr (6/14/2013)


    Sometimes it's more important to do a job you enjoy and are good at than to clibm the corporate ladder.

    I'm in my 50s and am employed as...

    Gaz

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  • RE: Do You Want a Meritocracy at Work?

    I want a meritocracy where technical skills AND soft skills (i.e. all skills) are used to evaluate the individuals value.

    I don't care what someone's DNA tells us (be that skin...

    Gaz

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  • RE: The Five Year Plan

    scott mcnitt (6/13/2013)


    Jim P. (6/13/2013)


    David.Poole (6/13/2013)


    Anyone starting today would be shocked by what their predecessors had to to to fight with the early versions of MFC. The sheer amount...

    Gaz

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  • RE: The Five Year Plan

    I would have to agree with many of the comments here, particularly Michael Valentine Jones', as decades on and I still get involved in creating enterprise systems from department cobbled...

    Gaz

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  • RE: The Five Year Plan

    David.Poole (6/13/2013)


    In short, IT will still exist in 5 years time, 25% will have gone, 50% will stay the same, 25% will be brand new and unimagined today.

    I know that...

    Gaz

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  • RE: Open Excel Error Using PowerShell in SQL Server Agent Job

    Lrobinson 93181 (6/12/2013)


    Hi,

    Thanks again, it ran the script but wouldn't save:

    "Exception calling "SaveAs" with "1" argument(s):"SaveAs method of Workbook class failed"

    The script runs fine outside of job agent, it...

    Gaz

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  • RE: COALESCE

    Evgeny (6/12/2013)


    Can someone change the date of this question? It is July but should be June! Question from the future )))

    My son would say "Chill your beans!!!" i.e. surely...

    Gaz

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