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  • RE: Sending email via Powershell with Attachment

    SQL-DBA-01 (4/5/2016)


    Hello

    Please draft the script to send mail to recipients with attachment.

    Regards

    Please do my job for me because I have better things to do with my time than fulfill my...

    Gaz

    -- Stop your grinnin' and drop your linen...they're everywhere!!!

  • RE: Would You Move For a Job?

    Sean Redmond (4/5/2016)


    ...Working from home is hard...

    It is.

    The following are essential to make it work:

    • Clear and understood communication channels.
    • Adequate facilities (including Internet).
    • Well defined and demonstrable tasks i.e. to prove that...

      Gaz

      -- Stop your grinnin' and drop your linen...they're everywhere!!!

  • RE: Would You Move For a Job?

    Andy Warren (4/4/2016)


    ...Gary, I saw your comment about it and I'd like to see someone tackle that editorial, preferably from the not first world view.

    Sorry. Not me. I don't qualify....

    Gaz

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  • RE: Code smells versus transgressions

    Phil Factor (4/4/2016)


    @gary

    If exists (select * from myTable) begin ... End

    ... is surely legitimate since they fixed the optimiser (was it...

    Gaz

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  • RE: Would You Move For a Job?

    I have worked freelance for over 17 years now and I have done the weekly commute, like Tom, and long daily commutes (circa 2.5 hours each way) but this has...

    Gaz

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  • RE: Code smells versus transgressions

    Surely the most obvious one is:

    SELECT * FROM ...

    Which is just plain wrong unless justified.

    I am a huge fan of coding standards but one that stipulates the way to do...

    Gaz

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  • RE: SnowCrash for SQL Server

    I'll be going straight for the Après-ski!!!

    Gaz

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  • RE: Continuous Delivery In Real Life

    David.Poole (7/16/2015)


    ...treat the source control trunk as sacrosanct, it should be the code that is in production...

    Always.

    Gaz

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  • RE: SnowCrash for SQL Server

    corey lawson (4/1/2016)


    there was a bored Unix sysadmin back in the late 90's who managed to cob up a Doom WAD that would represent server processes in Doom, in various...

    Gaz

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  • RE: The Database Transaction Unit (DTU) Decoded

    Me: Please let this be an April's Fools joke.

    Me: Please let this be an April's Fools joke.

    Me: Please let this be an April's Fools joke.

    Editorial: It is an April's Fools...

    Gaz

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  • RE: No Overtime

    iposner (1/3/2012)


    ...Some countries (like the UK) have clauses where an employee can contract out of its provisions...

    Employees can't but freelancers can. The good thing is that most HR departments are...

    Gaz

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  • RE: No Overtime

    sqlnyc (12/6/2011)


    ...what is known as a "professional day". In case this is foreign to you, this most unprofessional of concepts means that as a consultant, you do not get paid...

    Gaz

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  • RE: No Overtime

    Michael Valentine Jones (12/3/2011)


    The worst abuse is when they set short project deadlines without any attempt to match the workload to the available staff, and then expect people to work...

    Gaz

    -- Stop your grinnin' and drop your linen...they're everywhere!!!

  • RE: SnowCrash for SQL Server

    I think that Virtual Reality (VR) is more likely to be the equivalent of a report than the data itself. Then again if you can explore the data in new...

    Gaz

    -- Stop your grinnin' and drop your linen...they're everywhere!!!

  • RE: Is PowerShell Intimidating?

    Manic Star (3/31/2016)


    chrisn-585491 (3/31/2016)


    I still write the occasional .bat .cmd file nowadays.

    As do I, since not all clients understand or enable PS or any other advance scripting technology.

    I'm...

    Gaz

    -- Stop your grinnin' and drop your linen...they're everywhere!!!

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