October 20, 2016 at 3:02 pm
Gazareth (10/20/2016)
Eirikur Eiriksson (10/20/2016)
Gazareth (10/19/2016)
Eirikur Eiriksson (10/18/2016)
Just had a Blast from the past😎
First line: "Version 4.2 also lets you nest triggers"
I didn't get any further due to blacking out; came to 10 minutes later in the foetal position under my desk.
Colleagues tell me I let out quite the scream too...
Lesson learned, keep a comfort blanket (charlie brown style) under the desk and be good to the dust bunnies:-D
😎
Mark of a professional 🙂
That is funny.
It's amazing how long that habit stays with you. it's been 4-5 years since I've had production/operational duties, but yet my desk locker is STILL sporting the old sleeping bag, just in case I get stranded there.
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Your lack of planning does not constitute an emergency on my part...unless you're my manager...or a director and above...or a really loud-spoken end-user..All right - what was my emergency again?
October 20, 2016 at 6:10 pm
GilaMonster (10/13/2016)
20 years ago I was at University. 2nd year specifically, Maths, Physics, Computer Science.And I'm one of the oldest people at my current company (CEO is 2 years younger than I am)
20 years ago was a few months over 30 years since my first computing job. And I was the oldest person in my last 2 companies.
Tom
October 21, 2016 at 1:54 am
jasona.work (10/20/2016)
Geez, it's amazing how long it can take to backup a 150GB database across a network...
...especially a 100MB network between two DCs a hundred+ miles apart...
Finally got the migration done, customer reporting everything seems OK so far, Agent jobs seem to be working (some of them don't do anything until a file comes in to BCP into the tables, and have to do some weird decompression against the files first,) so I'm calling this a success!
And only an hour left in the day!
:w00t:
Yay! Beer o'clock!
Thomas Rushton
blog: https://thelonedba.wordpress.com
October 21, 2016 at 2:10 am
TomThomson (10/20/2016)
20 years ago was a few months over 30 years since my first computing job. And I was the oldest person in my last 2 companies.
20 years ago I was a year into my second job, had just about survived the layoffs that happened as a result of the merger between the insurance giant that owned the company I worked for and another insurance giant (the process later described as a "textbook way of how not to merge two large companies"). We'd gone through the whole "You must apply for your job" type thing, and they gave us the opportunity of applying for others as well, so everyone in my team applied for the team lead role (much to her disgust, no doubt). One of us found the interview scorecard - we'd all done better than her, so, of course, she kept the job... Other things thrown up by the merger was the team manager left, and we were incorporated into a larger team (still within the subsidiary company), and they were talking about setting us up into a sort of codetroubleshooter thing - see a problem and solve it with some decent apps development. Which would have been good; unfortunately, a new manager was appointed, and it swiftly changed to a BAU maintenance role - at which point I started hunting around for a new job. Six months later, I'd landed a dream job, resigned (the last member of the team to do so), and team leader immediately went off sick for a week with stress.
Happy days.
Oh, tech. Right. I went to that job as it was advertised as a VB programmer / SQL dev job. Great. That's what I was interviewed as, and, despite not having any real experience in either of those techs, I got the gig. In the month between them offering me the job and me starting, they changed their minds and started developing this thing in Application Manager from Intelligent Environments. Great tool, but not what I was sold. And it hadn't been designed to do what we needed it to do, so we had to work out how to fake OCX interface calls to drive the treeviews & tabviews on screen. And as for the interface DLLs to the other more complicated bits... ugh. We started a migration to VB4 after delivering the first pass of the system in AM, having already done the print system in VB.
Thomas Rushton
blog: https://thelonedba.wordpress.com
October 21, 2016 at 4:53 am
I thought this morning, as the last day of the contract, before I fly would be a bit manic...
But two hand overs done.
Calls updated.
TFS updated.
UAT report deployed.
10 minutes to go...
Jack - I'm meeting up with Grant and Michele on the 5th on Boston...
So let me know if you can meet up some other time (Gigs are 2nd and 4th at the Royale)
Rodders...
October 21, 2016 at 1:11 pm
I haven't even started packing yet and I already have flight delays. 🙁
Rodney, please remember the SQLBits cup you got for me.
Gail Shaw
Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverability
October 21, 2016 at 1:39 pm
Is anyone experiencing the effects of this?
http://gizmodo.com/this-is-probably-why-half-the-internet-shut-down-today-1788062835
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October 21, 2016 at 1:47 pm
Phil Parkin (10/21/2016)
Is anyone experiencing the effects of this?http://gizmodo.com/this-is-probably-why-half-the-internet-shut-down-today-1788062835
Yes indeed. The website for our soccer club was down for about the half the day today. I kept receiving reports that it was returning a 404. While investigating it was quite strange the results I was receiving. About 2 hours ago our site is back up and fully functional.
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October 21, 2016 at 1:58 pm
Sean Lange (10/21/2016)
Phil Parkin (10/21/2016)
Is anyone experiencing the effects of this?http://gizmodo.com/this-is-probably-why-half-the-internet-shut-down-today-1788062835
Yes indeed. The website for our soccer club was down for about the half the day today. I kept receiving reports that it was returning a 404. While investigating it was quite strange the results I was receiving. About 2 hours ago our site is back up and fully functional.
Oh yes. I heard about that this morning. None of our sites were affected, but I'm sure it's only a matter of time until one of the waves comes our way. It seems someone has a very large and very well-coordinated DDoS attack at their disposal and they're playing with it.
October 21, 2016 at 2:16 pm
Phil Parkin (10/21/2016)
Is anyone experiencing the effects of this?http://gizmodo.com/this-is-probably-why-half-the-internet-shut-down-today-1788062835
Yes, with the secondary effect that the Seacom cable has a fault and so half the country's internet traffic is being rerouted via who knows where.
Gail Shaw
Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverability
October 22, 2016 at 3:52 am
GilaMonster (10/21/2016)
I haven't even started packing yet and I already have flight delays. 🙁Rodney, please remember the SQLBits cup you got for me.
Bit late to remind me now :O
No, its in with my camera stuff, I haven't forgotten it!
Rodders...
October 22, 2016 at 4:16 am
rodjkidd (10/22/2016)
GilaMonster (10/21/2016)
I haven't even started packing yet and I already have flight delays. 🙁Rodney, please remember the SQLBits cup you got for me.
Bit late to remind me now :O
??? I thought from your post above you were flying out today
Gail Shaw
Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverability
October 22, 2016 at 4:55 am
GilaMonster (10/22/2016)
rodjkidd (10/22/2016)
GilaMonster (10/21/2016)
I haven't even started packing yet and I already have flight delays. 🙁Rodney, please remember the SQLBits cup you got for me.
Bit late to remind me now :O
??? I thought from your post above you were flying out today
Yes, but this contract was in Reading so I was working away during the week :w00t:
Got into NYC last night, flying to Seattle in about 5 hours.
So I had to make sure I had everything last Sunday - eek.
But your mug has been on my desk for ages to remind me 😉
Oh just spotted a double meaning in that last line, haha
Rodders...
October 22, 2016 at 1:04 pm
Eirikur Eiriksson (10/20/2016)
Gazareth (10/19/2016)
Eirikur Eiriksson (10/18/2016)
Just had a Blast from the past😎
First line: "Version 4.2 also lets you nest triggers"
I didn't get any further due to blacking out; came to 10 minutes later in the foetal position under my desk.
Colleagues tell me I let out quite the scream too...
Lesson learned, keep a comfort blanket (charlie brown style) under the desk and be good to the dust bunnies:-D
😎
AH! And bring supplies! The dust bunnies make the best beer Popsicles™!
--Jeff Moden
Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.
October 22, 2016 at 1:28 pm
Jeff Moden (10/22/2016)
Eirikur Eiriksson (10/20/2016)
Gazareth (10/19/2016)
Eirikur Eiriksson (10/18/2016)
Just had a Blast from the past😎
First line: "Version 4.2 also lets you nest triggers"
I didn't get any further due to blacking out; came to 10 minutes later in the foetal position under my desk.
Colleagues tell me I let out quite the scream too...
Lesson learned, keep a comfort blanket (charlie brown style) under the desk and be good to the dust bunnies:-D
😎
AH! And bring supplies! The dust bunnies make the best beer Popsicles™!
Thanks Jeff, yet again you have underlined an important fact that I've missed, good job!
Beer Popsicles™ are close to what we on this (the right) side of the pond call Iced Ale Cones, Limeys though normally find them too cold, I find them quite pleasant when the temperature goes above zero.
😎
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