roger.plowman (7/23/2015)

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Your editorial I think overlooks the inherent priorities that must be present in a DBA's role.

First, the data must be kept *safe*, full stop.

At the bare minimum that means...

Jeff Moden (7/22/2015)

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Considering how many people have asked how to restore data without backups this month alone, this is a timely reminder that evolution of the DBA doesn't remove any...

Alvin Ramard (7/22/2015)

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Brandie Tarvin (7/22/2015)

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Gotta love it when someone schedules a software change/update at month end. Because "there's no impact to the business" and all that.

<headdesk>

This too I will survive.

I...

xsevensinzx (7/23/2015)

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I'm with you on this one. That and the fact it forces people to do client side reporting that's not optimized and developed to be reused for team usage...

We have debated about it. There is a significant amount of work for some parts of the site. We do have a mobile QotD that someone mocked up, but not...

BWFC (7/22/2015)

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Aargh!!

'Why didn't this appear on your report? It's wrong. There's been an incident and you've made us look bad in front of government.' - The Business

<investigates>

'It's not...

dietztm (7/20/2015)

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Why not learn Power Pivot too? It's not THAT hard. I know that many of us are allergic to Excel (from an end-user perspective) but Power Pivot is actually...

jckfla (7/20/2015)

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Maybe I'm not seeing something right about CI...but to me, it seems to me very loosely defined.

I would think Continuous Integration would be related to what (at least during...

I'm not saying that any report is good. Or that all the reports you come up with will be used or well received. I'm not advocating anything, nor asking you...

Ray K (7/17/2015)

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calvo (7/17/2015)

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What about Pete Rose in the franchise four!!!! I think it was good to see him involved in some activities again. I'm hoping for a removal of...

It's poorly named. I'll see if I can get a wording change.

jckfla (7/17/2015)

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Just seems to me that rapid development/continuous delivery of software in the current era is more about revenue streams widening rather than usefulness of technology advancing rapidly.

And...

Eric M Russell (7/16/2015)

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I'm not familaiar with unit testing frameworks; I typically do input / output unit testing in the development environment while I'm coding. The header for each stored...

timlenz (7/16/2015)

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HEY ALL!

Be aware that this patch is considered a HIGH SECURITY RISK and because of that Microsoft has the ability to install and restart your SQL Server (or your...

Sorry, some posts got crossed.

To answer your questions, no, no way other than writing code.