Nice one, Leonid. I've made similar scripts in the past for such information, but I like yours better. 🙂 Definitely going in to my toolbox.

Echoing Steve's issues with WiFi and spotty cell coverage. It's a constant frustration for me that everyone wants all their media streaming on their phones: 5 minutes away from...

lshanahan (4/14/2015)

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Pick up a book called "No-Tech Hacking". It's certainly an eye-opener on this topic if it doesn't scare the **** out of you first.

Grant is right: We...

Bill Talada (4/10/2015)

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The essence of the article, to me, seems to be about the power struggle between a DBA and Developer that happens every time a change is requested. ...

My previous job, after I got domain admin access, I ran OSQL -L and started digging. I was quite surprised to find most of the databases being autoclose and...

Thanks for the article, Dwain! Just last week I added a logging table for executing stored procs, mainly because I have a pair of do/undo procs that can be...

As long as he's fighting militant Rastifarians and not Pastafarians, that would hit a little too close to home for me. 😀

I didn't realize it when I saw the last...

I wrote one COBOL program post-school, must have been about '91. It was a pivot report against our help desk ticketing database on a Wang Pace 7150 or 7310,...

GoofyGuy (4/8/2015)

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Wayne West wrote:

I have a few stacks of unused punch...

Thanks, Jeff, very useful! I ran in to the datetime2 issue just yesterday while trying what turned out to be an unnecessary modification to my audit system. It's...

Eric M Russell (4/8/2015)

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Wayne, I guess what you're saying is that you don't trust your Cloud provider's ISP, because your own local ISP can't be trusted. However, one advantage to...

I had a teacher who told me of a system rewrite that she did. When she began the project, she compiled a list of all of the required reports....

Yesterday when I got in to work our internet connection was down, the outage was just under two hours due to an "Emergency power cutoff" at the ISP's facility somewhere.

Last...

Brilliant, Charles! Seems I've heard of that one. Giving people an illusion of control or choice and making them feel better.

There's a retirement home in Germany that had...

Raghavendra Mudugal (4/1/2015)

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Thank you for the question.

(Forgive me for my low level curiosity: "what is five book trilogy?"; and I never know how I am suppose to answer such questions,...