Ugh, so not looking forward to tomorrow...

Get to spend most of the day in a "new employee orientation" thing (which runs into Thursday for Pete's sake!) despite having worked here...

Brandie Tarvin (3/28/2016)

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jasona.work (3/28/2016)

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Could be worse...

You could've not found anything...

😀

Rather annoying though, how difficult it can be to track down things like this, in...

Could be worse...

You could've not found anything...

😀

Rather annoying though, how difficult it can be to track down things like this, in the UI.

The part above would...

Having come into the DBA world via the accidental route by way of server / desktop / network admining, here's a thought on this...

To some extant, it seems to me...

Phil Parkin (3/23/2016)

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jasona.work (3/23/2016)

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I'd ask if it made me odd to be enjoying puttering around and tweaking a report in SSRS (with no guarantee that it will even be used)...

I'd ask if it made me odd to be enjoying puttering around and tweaking a report in SSRS (with no guarantee that it will even be used) to get it...

ChrisM@Work (3/23/2016)

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How many of you contractors have been so taken with a gig that you've signed up as a permie? I just did. I never expected that.

The idea of presenting...

:w00t::w00t::w00t:

OK, admittedly I followed a MSDN SSRS report creation walk-through, but I've already got a working backup report going! Now to fire up a second VM, and try getting...

Brandie Tarvin (3/23/2016)

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jasona.work (3/23/2016)

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Brandie Tarvin (3/23/2016)

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GAH.

Late night release last night. The vendor copied and pasted SQL code from a Word doc into the T-SQL job step. Of course the single...

Brandie Tarvin (3/23/2016)

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GAH.

Late night release last night. The vendor copied and pasted SQL code from a Word doc into the T-SQL job step. Of course the single quotes are "smart...

Lynn Pettis (3/21/2016)

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Okay, my daughter and I are in Providence, RI. We were scheduled to do campus visit at Johnson & Wales University this morning but they called yesterday...

Jeff Moden (3/16/2016)

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On the serious side, I wouldn't give a user or application the privs to run a job directly. Neither would I give them the ability to run...

Ed Wagner (3/16/2016)

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jasona.work (3/16/2016)

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Shoot me, please, just shoot me...

So, several (most) of my servers have silly-small C:\ drives for the OS. This hasn't been a problem until recently, now...

Shoot me, please, just shoot me...

So, several (most) of my servers have silly-small C:\ drives for the OS. This hasn't been a problem until recently, now those drives are...