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  • Reply To: Cloud First Software

    m60freeman wrote:

    Personally, I resent Adobe moving to a pure rental model, with no more "boxed" product. As an amateur photographer, I need access to Lightroom and Photoshop, but maybe only...

  • Reply To: Replacing Physical Server

    I'll second Ed's suggestion about DNS aliasing. We're moving all our servers to a new data center with new names but with the same DNS alias as the old network....

  • Reply To: Cloud First Software

    As a musician, I really don't like music rental. The only people that make money are the execs at these services. I have to have 1000 streams to make enough...

  • Reply To: Adding SQL Variant Data

    What happened to the question?

  • Reply To: Time To Recharge

    Enjoy your time off Grant.

    I don't know if they still do it but you used to be able to tour Gettysburg on horseback. It was an amazing experience.

  • Reply To: Building a front end for a database

    You should check out this SQL Bits presentation on SQL Injection by Grant Fritchey before you connect a website to a database. This will help you get a handle on...

  • Reply To: Moving on but not far

    Thank you Kathi. Here's hoping the new position at Redgate is everything you want it to be.

  • Reply To: Scripting Makes Mistakes Easier Than Ever

    Jeff Moden wrote:

    ”if you want something real bad, that’s the way you’ll usually get it”.

    That's the truth...

  • Reply To: Your User Manual

    This is a really interesting idea Steve. I think I'm going to dedicate some time to writing my manual. It sounds like a great way to really think about what...

  • Reply To: The Test Mistake

    Rod at work wrote:

    So, why is it a bad idea to use production data in test/dev?

    Off the top of my head, Only a few accounts have access to production limiting the accounts...

  • Reply To: Upgrade SQL and OS of legacy

    Grant Fritchey wrote:

    YIKES!!

    However, I'm on board with this in general. No, not in-place vs. side-by-side. Rollbacks. Rollbacks are almost never really achievable.

    I didn't have a good feeling about their rollbacks from...

  • Reply To: Upgrade SQL and OS of legacy

    We had a directive from corporate to upgrade all our server OSes to 2019. I was informed by IT that they were going to in-place upgrade the SQL Server OSes....

  • Reply To: Most of Us Are Vulnerable

    My company has MFA setup on our VPN connection and any time we RDC into a server. The default is Microsoft Authenticator. Most of the time it works fine and...

  • Reply To: A New Language

    I played with R a little bit but it's not for me. I find python much more interesting and easier to wrap my head around. I'll continue to work on...

  • Reply To: Coding for the Future

    Taking off my DBA hat and putting on my developer hat. I agree with Steve that we need to think through scenarios for the code we write. Can we always...

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