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  • RE: Show Database and Log sizes, free space and location

    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.

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  • RE: The Opportunistic Hacker

    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...

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  • RE: The Opportunistic Hacker

    lshanahan (4/14/2015)


    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...

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    [font="Arial"]Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves or we know where we can find information upon it. --Samuel Johnson[/font]

  • RE: Five Rules For Sucessful Conversations With DBAs

    Bill Talada (4/10/2015)


    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. ...

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  • RE: After Six Months On The Job What Challenges Remain?

    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...

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  • RE: Logging and Error Handling for SQL Stored Procedures

    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...

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  • RE: Your Cloud Held Hostage – Could It Happen?

    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...

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  • RE: Your Cloud Held Hostage – Could It Happen?

    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,...

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    [font="Arial"]Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves or we know where we can find information upon it. --Samuel Johnson[/font]

  • RE: Your Cloud Held Hostage – Could It Happen?

    GoofyGuy (4/8/2015)


    Wayne West wrote:

    We read about cloud outages on a regular basis. If you had a mainframe, you could count on high availability.

    I have a few stacks of unused punch...

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  • RE: Calculating Duration Using DATETIME Start and End Dates (SQL Spackle)

    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...

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  • RE: Your Cloud Held Hostage – Could It Happen?

    Eric M Russell (4/8/2015)


    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...

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    [font="Arial"]Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves or we know where we can find information upon it. --Samuel Johnson[/font]

  • RE: Large Chunks of Data

    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....

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  • RE: Your Cloud Held Hostage – Could It Happen?

    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...

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  • RE: Byte Me: Shifting Gear

    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...

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  • RE: April 1 2015, a space oddity

    Raghavendra Mudugal (4/1/2015)


    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,...

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