Whether you are a Brent or a Jeff there are some pitfalls to watch out for to avoid burning yourself out.

Do others see you as a leg up or...

We have a requirement to allow certain nominated users to execute 'jobs', where the definition of a job could be running a stored proc, or a PoSh script, or...

Whoa... oh my... now there's a subject I didn't plan on reading about tonight. Other than stating that my levels of imposter syndrome just shot through the roof, I'm not...

It depends on where thing are at and where you're running the command from.  For example, if...

Heh... no... I agree... BBFAATT will never be able to compete with RBAR.

Also, sorry about your argument with set-based v.s. RBAR thing.  I'd have to see what the two things...

And, sorry... I forgot that it's a bit new... "BBFAATT" is pronounced as "bee-bee-fat" and is my acronym for "Books, Blogs, Forums, Articles, AI, `Tubes, and Talks".

Heh.. and if sarcasm...

Fair point @jeff, but I think Ron and many other people who build DWs (or Power BI developers?) are more concerned with making the data, and potential calculations, as...

You may have never seen a good data warehouse.  The advantages over standard reporting procedures are significant.  Calculations such as YTD, PTYD and the comparisons of the two, rolling...

I've always had a bit of an issue with Data Warehouses and some of the techniques of using dimension tables... especially temporal dimension tables.  While this is a very nicely...

If InfoSec already has an issue with replication because you are going from Prod to Non-Prod, then using backup/restore is also going to be an issue.  Anything that allows...

I have a SQL database of 2 TB running on production. There is a need to refresh this database on Q environment on a daily basis. Cannot implement SQL...

Comparing yourself to an even bigger asshole doesn't lessen the fact that you're an asshole.  In fact, it confirms just how much of an asshole you are. 😉

Are you absolutely sure that the drive path and the UNC are actually pointing to the same directory?  I HAVE seen people get confused on such issues before.

You can explain things without being such an absolute condescending asshole, Joe!

Crud... I missed that detail because I was only...