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...

SQLRNNR (3/15/2016)

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GilaMonster (3/15/2016)

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Ed Wagner (3/15/2016)

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GilaMonster (3/15/2016)

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Brandie Tarvin (3/15/2016)

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In a change of subject, anyone else find it odd that someone would claim that the proper way of doing a SQL thing...

Reading the SQL2016 release notes, and especially Jeffs' comments here[/url], I'm wondering if maybe MS didn't bother to set up their string splitter with the capability of numbering the output...

Steve Jones - SSC Editor (3/15/2016)

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JustMarie (3/15/2016)

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Steve Jones - SSC Editor (3/15/2016)

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I'm sad today

One bit of advice. Work with your body shop to make sure that the repairs come under...