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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...

  • 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...

  • 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....

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • RE: SnowCrash for SQL Server

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

  • 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.

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

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