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  • RE: The Auditor Attack Vector

    g.britton (12/2/2015)


    With a title like that, you've been watching too much "Big Bang Theory"

    Is that possible?

  • RE: Rethinking Hiring

    Steve Jones - SSC Editor (12/2/2015)


    Gary Varga (12/2/2015)


    It's tricky.

    Companies do not like paying vastly different salaries/rates yet need different valued people. All of whom need both time to keep any...

  • RE: Rethinking Hiring

    Sean Redmond (12/2/2015)


    ...I admonished our Personel department for the stupid qualification requirements they put in (Junior DBAs had to have a university degree; senior DBAs had to have at least...

  • RE: servers list in a domain

    smmkr17 (12/2/2015)


    [System.Data.Sql.SqlDataSourceEnumerator]::Instance.GetDataSources() | SELECT ServerName.Trim() | Format-Table -HideTableHeaders

    This threw a syntactic error

    It would do. Without seeing more of your script I cannot say where the Trim() should go. Anyway, either...

  • RE: What Kind of DBA Are You?

    Disappointingly few non-DBAs then. I can't be the only non-SQL Server bod here. Can I? No. I am sure that I read in the comments above that someone had a...

  • RE: The Scientific Method

    Sadly,

    we continue to pile additional caveats and restrictions to our hypothesis and try to force the system to work a certain way.

    I see this in unit testing ALL THE...

  • RE: Masking Data

    TomThomson (12/1/2015)


    Gary Varga (10/28/2015)


    You are not allowed to use production data if the data resides within the EU. There are exceptions to this but they are very limited in scope.

    Obsfucated...

  • RE: Do You Have Scary Code?

    TomThomson (12/1/2015)


    ...When the first test fails to provide ny useful information people tend to be discouraged from writing another. For a serious chunk of software, you need to star...

  • RE: SQL Injection - The Revenge

    TomThomson (12/1/2015)


    "...have you ever run into resistance in implementing what you know to be vital security features?"

    Yes. But not very often.

    And (this will probably surprise people): the resistance has...

  • RE: servers list in a domain

    Each server name is a string so you can call Trim() on them to remove any whitespace at the beginning or end of the string (you may just want to...

  • RE: Rethinking Hiring

    It's tricky.

    Companies do not like paying vastly different salaries/rates yet need different valued people. All of whom need both time to keep any necessary skills up to date or to...

  • RE: The Auditor Attack Vector

    hakim.ali (12/1/2015)


    ...I once stumbled upon a spreadsheet on the network with compensation information on it...

    Once worked at a place were costings for individuals was left on a printer in a...

  • RE: Giving Thanks

    Eric M Russell (12/1/2015)


    The Pilgrim colonists were British, and Britain had a very profitable enterprise in the New World for a couple of centuries, so there is no reason for...

  • RE: Working with People

    DBAs vs Devs (or any Job Role A vs Job Role B) seems a little old, or rather it did before the last few years for cost job cutting. A...

  • RE: Giving Thanks

    Phil Factor (12/1/2015)


    @paul-2.

    You are quite right. I should have checked my facts. He was pronounced guilty of high treason. He initially said that his motives were to 'to blow you...

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