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Ed Wagner SSC Guru Points: 287026 More actions · Answer 1

Luis Cazares - Tuesday, July 11, 2017 6:04 AM
To be honest, I'm against scrubbing data. If we can build systems to handle all sort of Asian characters, we shouldn't have problems with characters that are common in English. So, make them fix their system to handle the "special characters".

You're absolutely right, Luis. However, if the receiving system can't handle them, then we have to accommodate whatever restrictions the system places on us. I have an output I run for a system that won't accept Unicode. Even if they upgrade, it won't accept it. So, I have to convert all Unicode to ANSI and let the ? fly. Is it ridiculous? Of course. But since the destination system is for a company who's paying the bills, I have to deal with their restrictions, no matter how obsolete.

She also said this is a federally mandated process, so the target system could be even more out of date than most. 😛

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jasona.work SSC Guru Points: 50117 More actions · Answer 2

Ed Wagner - Tuesday, July 11, 2017 6:18 AM
You're absolutely right, Luis. However, if the receiving system can't handle them, then we have to accommodate whatever restrictions the system places on us. I have an output I run for a system that won't accept Unicode. Even if they upgrade, it won't accept it. So, I have to convert all Unicode to ANSI and let the ? fly. Is it ridiculous? Of course. But since the destination system is for a company who's paying the bills, I have to deal with their restrictions, no matter how obsolete.
She also said this is a federally mandated process, so the target system could be even more out of date than most. 😛

Oh come on, .GOV systems aren't "out-of-date," they're "mature" systems!

Lynn Pettis SSC Guru Points: 442467 More actions · Answer 3

jasona.work - Tuesday, July 11, 2017 11:44 AM
Ed Wagner - Tuesday, July 11, 2017 6:18 AM
You're absolutely right, Luis. However, if the receiving system can't handle them, then we have to accommodate whatever restrictions the system places on us. I have an output I run for a system that won't accept Unicode. Even if they upgrade, it won't accept it. So, I have to convert all Unicode to ANSI and let the ? fly. Is it ridiculous? Of course. But since the destination system is for a company who's paying the bills, I have to deal with their restrictions, no matter how obsolete.
She also said this is a federally mandated process, so the target system could be even more out of date than most. 😛
Oh come on, .GOV systems aren't "out-of-date," they're "mature" systems!

Some could be called geriatric. :w00t:

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Lynn Pettis - Tuesday, July 11, 2017 11:47 AM
jasona.work - Tuesday, July 11, 2017 11:44 AM
Ed Wagner - Tuesday, July 11, 2017 6:18 AM
You're absolutely right, Luis. However, if the receiving system can't handle them, then we have to accommodate whatever restrictions the system places on us. I have an output I run for a system that won't accept Unicode. Even if they upgrade, it won't accept it. So, I have to convert all Unicode to ANSI and let the ? fly. Is it ridiculous? Of course. But since the destination system is for a company who's paying the bills, I have to deal with their restrictions, no matter how obsolete.
She also said this is a federally mandated process, so the target system could be even more out of date than most. 😛
Oh come on, .GOV systems aren't "out-of-date," they're "mature" systems!
Some could be called geriatric. :w00t:

LMAO! 😛😛😛

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jasona.work SSC Guru Points: 50117 More actions · Answer 5

Lynn Pettis - Tuesday, July 11, 2017 11:47 AM
jasona.work - Tuesday, July 11, 2017 11:44 AM
Ed Wagner - Tuesday, July 11, 2017 6:18 AM
You're absolutely right, Luis. However, if the receiving system can't handle them, then we have to accommodate whatever restrictions the system places on us. I have an output I run for a system that won't accept Unicode. Even if they upgrade, it won't accept it. So, I have to convert all Unicode to ANSI and let the ? fly. Is it ridiculous? Of course. But since the destination system is for a company who's paying the bills, I have to deal with their restrictions, no matter how obsolete.
She also said this is a federally mandated process, so the target system could be even more out of date than most. 😛
Oh come on, .GOV systems aren't "out-of-date," they're "mature" systems!
Some could be called geriatric. :w00t:

"It belongs in a museum!"

Brandie Tarvin SSC Guru Points: 173061 More actions · Answer 6

NO! Please!

I've seen "Night at the Museum." The last thing I need is these things coming to life and wrecking havoc on everything!

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Brandie Tarvin - Tuesday, July 11, 2017 12:01 PM
NO! Please!
I've seen "Night at the Museum." The last thing I need is these things coming to life and wrecking havoc on everything!

Can you even imagine how slowly the servers would move if they came to life? Whatever we do, we'd have to disconnect their network cards. That many servers all causing chaos at the same time would be rough to handle. Given the horsepower of some of them, the "rise of the machines" would be a slow rise and it would take them a while to get to the point where they could attack physically, but it would still begin.

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Ed Wagner - Tuesday, July 11, 2017 12:25 PM
Brandie Tarvin - Tuesday, July 11, 2017 12:01 PM
NO! Please!
I've seen "Night at the Museum." The last thing I need is these things coming to life and wrecking havoc on everything!
Can you even imagine how slowly the servers would move if they came to life? Whatever we do, we'd have to disconnect their network cards. That many servers all causing chaos at the same time would be rough to handle. Given the horsepower of some of them, the "rise of the machines" would be a slow rise and it would take them a while to get to the point where they could attack physically, but it would still begin.

Hmm, if every server in a rack started and stopped it's fans in sync, would they be able to start rocking the rack side-to-side?
And if they did the same with the disk drives, and got the timing right, would they also be able to get it to "walk" forward?

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Jeff Moden - Monday, July 10, 2017 8:03 AM
Greg Edwards-268690 - Monday, July 10, 2017 7:22 AM
Jeff Moden - Monday, July 10, 2017 5:58 AM
They should take lessons from Grandmother... "Take care of the pennies and the dollars will take care of themselves". 😉
I'm always amazed that some people don't understand the value of actions based on forethought. Perhaps it's because some managers drive projects to meet a schedule rather than understanding the true cost of rework and doing it right the first time every time.
And the schedule is not met if extended by rework.
It shouldn't be checked off until this is completed.
Rework should really occur in Dev and QA, not in a production schedule.
Understanding and acknowledging this is key to process improvement.
Absolutely spot on except for the QA part. It shouldn't ever fail QA. 😉 They're testing to the same spec that the code was written. With the idea of test driven development being extremely valuable, I'll sometimes ask QA for their test use cases before I write a lick of code.

QA is where 'works as designed' meets 'I now understand exceptions we talked about, can we have these enhancements?'
So some of this depends on how seriously the business take the spec process.
And also when you are talking a dozen exceptions sometimes in 50k order lines.

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jasona.work - Tuesday, July 11, 2017 1:16 PM
Hmm, if every server in a rack started and stopped it's fans in sync, would they be able to start rocking the rack side-to-side?
And if they did the same with the disk drives, and got the timing right, would they also be able to get it to "walk" forward?

Many, many years ago I used to watch our ICL hard-drives shuffle along the floor when the data was badly fragmented. Occasionally our engineer would shuffle them back into place once they'd calmed down.

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Thom A SSC Guru Points: 99130 More actions · Answer 11

Not a question for help, we fixed the problem, but just wondered if anyone knows of any updates "recently" that caused problem with the Log on as Service permissions. Our SQL server went through it's monthly restart last night, and we got in to find all of the services failed to restart. One of the errors being the below:

The MSSQLSERVER service was unable to log on as [Service Account] with the currently configured password due to the following error:
Logon failure: the user has not been granted the requested logon type at this computer.
Service: MSSQLSERVER
Domain and account: [Service Account]
This service account does not have the required user right "Log on as a service."
User Action
Assign "Log on as a service" to the service account on this computer. You can use Local Security Settings (Secpol.msc) to do this. If this computer is a node in a cluster, check that this user right is assigned to the Cluster service account on all nodes in the cluster.
If you have already assigned this user right to the service account, and the user right appears to be removed, check with your domain administrator to find out if a Group Policy object associated with this node might be removing the right.

Considering we've had the server running fine for the last 4 years, with its restarts, we found it a little odd, and just trying to ensure that nothing else is going on behind the scenes. Network Team are having a look their end as well, however, they're not aware of any changes they think would have affected it in the last couple of months.

Thanks guys!

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Brandie Tarvin SSC Guru Points: 173061 More actions · Answer 12

Thom A - Wednesday, July 12, 2017 2:20 AM
Not a question for help, we fixed the problem, but just wondered if anyone knows of any updates "recently" that caused problem with the Log on as Service permissions. Our SQL server went through it's monthly restart last night, and we got in to find all of the services failed to restart. One of the errors being the below:
The MSSQLSERVER service was unable to log on as [Service Account] with the currently configured password due to the following error:
Logon failure: the user has not been granted the requested logon type at this computer.
Service: MSSQLSERVER
Domain and account: [Service Account]
This service account does not have the required user right "Log on as a service."
User Action
Assign "Log on as a service" to the service account on this computer. You can use Local Security Settings (Secpol.msc) to do this. If this computer is a node in a cluster, check that this user right is assigned to the Cluster service account on all nodes in the cluster.
If you have already assigned this user right to the service account, and the user right appears to be removed, check with your domain administrator to find out if a Group Policy object associated with this node might be removing the right.
Considering we've had the server running fine for the last 4 years, with its restarts, we found it a little odd, and just trying to ensure that nothing else is going on behind the scenes. Network Team are having a look their end as well, however, they're not aware of any changes they think would have affected it in the last couple of months.
Thanks guys!

I can't say as if I've heard anything on this. But I do know some OS patches came through on my PC this week and overrode my Aero Peek settings (I had completely disabled it and suddenly, even though the box was unchecked, it started "working" again). So yeah, some weird stuff has been happening on some of these patches.

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Thom A SSC Guru Points: 99130 More actions · Answer 13

Brandie Tarvin - Wednesday, July 12, 2017 4:57 AM
I can't say as if I've heard anything on this. But I do know some OS patches came through on my PC this week and overrode my Aero Peek settings (I had completely disabled it and suddenly, even though the box was unchecked, it started "working" again). So yeah, some weird stuff has been happening on some of these patches.

Odd, I gave our "Dev" machine a "kick" as well, and it suffered the same problem. The Network team rerolled out the GP for Log on as Service, as it was missing on the servers. Guessing a patch decided to clean it out and then it didn't re-synchronise.

Thom~

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jasona.work SSC Guru Points: 50117 More actions · Answer 14

BrainDonor - Wednesday, July 12, 2017 1:27 AM
jasona.work - Tuesday, July 11, 2017 1:16 PM
Hmm, if every server in a rack started and stopped it's fans in sync, would they be able to start rocking the rack side-to-side?
And if they did the same with the disk drives, and got the timing right, would they also be able to get it to "walk" forward?
Many, many years ago I used to watch our ICL hard-drives shuffle along the floor when the data was badly fragmented. Occasionally our engineer would shuffle them back into place once they'd calmed down.

Must...
Touch...
Drive...

jonathan.crawford SSCertifiable Points: 6612 More actions · Answer 15

jasona.work - Wednesday, July 12, 2017 7:54 AM
BrainDonor - Wednesday, July 12, 2017 1:27 AM
jasona.work - Tuesday, July 11, 2017 1:16 PM
Hmm, if every server in a rack started and stopped it's fans in sync, would they be able to start rocking the rack side-to-side?
And if they did the same with the disk drives, and got the timing right, would they also be able to get it to "walk" forward?
Many, many years ago I used to watch our ICL hard-drives shuffle along the floor when the data was badly fragmented. Occasionally our engineer would shuffle them back into place once they'd calmed down.
Must...
Touch...
Drive...

spills coffee, drops pen from shirt pocket while leaning over the machine.....*crackle*...."Houston, we have a problem"....

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