I can think of two companies that I would pull up roots and move right away for. One is a company that is breaking into a industry that has...

Jeff Moden (4/1/2016)

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I'm thinking that the 1200 files could be due to the partitioning of 1 or more large tables. It's not unheard of for folks to partition by...

Bear with me here, I want to make sure I've got things right:

1. You've got 1200 (wow) logical files, I'm presuming these are the backup files and that you're...

Why am I picturing some poor sysadmin coming into work, sitting down at his desk, pulling on his VR headset, so he can virtually walk the server stacks?

The only difference...

Sean Lange (3/31/2016)

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BL0B_EATER (3/31/2016)

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They got me on "Also 'wet' or dry rub"...

Presuming you're connecting with SSMS, you're probably not using the same version of SSMS as the SQL Server SSIS.

IE, you're using SSMS from SQL2012, the SSIS is SQL2008.

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...