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  • RE: Appreciating New Perspectives

    These are some very good observations.  I have travelled Europe from France to Romania and Ukraine, and learned many of these same things on those trips.  Especially rewarding was when...

    Rick
    If you do a half-assed job of things, folks will ask 'why did this ass only do half the job?'

  • RE: Importing data reports data truncation in both EM and SSIS from multiple data sources

    drew.allen - Monday, August 28, 2017 3:02 PM

    Have you checked the end-of-record delimiter.  It could be LF, CR, or CR/LF.

    Drew

    Drew, I haven't...

    Rick
    If you do a half-assed job of things, folks will ask 'why did this ass only do half the job?'

  • RE: Importing data reports data truncation in both EM and SSIS from multiple data sources

    Sue_H - Monday, August 28, 2017 12:47 PM

    skeleton567 - Friday, August 25, 2017 11:42 AM

    Rick
    If you do a half-assed job of things, folks will ask 'why did this ass only do half the job?'

  • RE: Hiring Guitarists

    "Programmers and DBAs get paid a whole lot of money. I wish people would stop making excuses for the folks that put buzzwords on a resume but don't...

    Rick
    If you do a half-assed job of things, folks will ask 'why did this ass only do half the job?'

  • RE: Hiring Guitarists

    I always felt that it's not as important to know all the answers as it is to know and understand how to find them.  It's like art.  Lots of folks...

    Rick
    If you do a half-assed job of things, folks will ask 'why did this ass only do half the job?'

  • RE: Hiring Guitarists

    Only thing I don't agree with it this:  "If I insist on making poor choices, I want their support, but if they can influence me to do...

    Rick
    If you do a half-assed job of things, folks will ask 'why did this ass only do half the job?'

  • RE: Fuzzy Search

    William, thank you for your very nice work with the fuzzy search function.  I'm a 74-year-old retired DBA who now 'plays' nearly every day with SQL code working mainly on...

    Rick
    If you do a half-assed job of things, folks will ask 'why did this ass only do half the job?'

  • RE: Your Job Description

    I think most of the job descriptions I ever saw utilized the shotgun approach.  And most of them were at least 'finalized' by HR folks who were clueless regarding the...

    Rick
    If you do a half-assed job of things, folks will ask 'why did this ass only do half the job?'

  • RE: The Invisible DBA

    OK.  That's all great.  Now let's get on to a similar list for managers.  Number one has to be listen to your DBA's and let them get things done that...

    Rick
    If you do a half-assed job of things, folks will ask 'why did this ass only do half the job?'

  • RE: IoT Pros and Cons

    Ed, I agree with you 100%.  We just don't know about the privacy, and minus the research to find out, I think it's better to stick with doing it on...

    Rick
    If you do a half-assed job of things, folks will ask 'why did this ass only do half the job?'

  • RE: IoT Pros and Cons

    Echoing what I have advocated for years now is that we need to design our networks so that there is a clear demarcation, and physical/electronic isolation between internal and external systems, with...

    Rick
    If you do a half-assed job of things, folks will ask 'why did this ass only do half the job?'

  • RE: IoT Pros and Cons

    It seem more and more I m asking why we want to do many of the things we see being done with technology, and I have concluded that 'Because we...

    Rick
    If you do a half-assed job of things, folks will ask 'why did this ass only do half the job?'

  • RE: Staging Deployments

    Well, we already have the SQL code stored inside the database so it can be deployed along with database changes to the server.  Maybe we should also make it possible...

    Rick
    If you do a half-assed job of things, folks will ask 'why did this ass only do half the job?'

  • RE: Dealing with Supervision

    GeorgeCopeland - Thursday, April 6, 2017 10:06 AM

    Eric M Russell - Thursday, April 6, 2017 8:34 AM

    Rick
    If you do a half-assed job of things, folks will ask 'why did this ass only do half the job?'

  • RE: Dealing with Supervision

    Probably the riskiest experience I dealt with over the years was one position where I worked for a manager with a huge ego and small experience.  One day while I was...

    Rick
    If you do a half-assed job of things, folks will ask 'why did this ass only do half the job?'

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