I was about to post something about "let's not be elitist, everyone has to start learning somewhere" and then I read the chain. Even before I got to the "bad...

Got this through the email today: (unedited) Azure, Web API, C#, MVC, Entity Framework, jQuery, CSS, Bootstrap, React, JavaScript, Azure DevOps, PowerShell, Automation, SQL, Transact-SQL, Webservices, Agile,...

So here's my chance! I'm helping write up a job description for a "Jack of all trades" DBA position. Unfortunately, no, I can't put DBCC TIMEWARP() on it. I've tried....

Is it just me, or is Edge rendering really poorly on other people's devices? I mean, it's like 80's web formatting instead of 21st century formatting.

It would take more like...

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Fortunately, my employer has decided a majority of people can be Work From Home, with only some doing part WFH and part in-Office, and a rare, essential few doing in-Office...

Is the SSIS task waiting for completion before returning success? I may have been wrong in my original assessment of the disconnected execution, which has been my experience in...

YESYESYESYESYES... Second Execute Process task working as well!!!!

I had the wrong freakin' switch!

I hate it when I spend so much time trying to troubleshoot something and it turns out to...

HA! SUCCESS!

So, I knew it wasn't running because the powershell script loads the file header information into a database table. And nothing was happening when I ran this in SSIS...

• This reply was modified 3 years, 4 months ago by  Brandie Tarvin.

It seems there is something blocking the execution of the script - have you tried copying the script to a local drive and just executing the script directly from...

I wonder if using ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted in the command line is overriding the previous Bypass setting on the command line?  You don't actually need to specify both - one...

• This reply was modified 3 years, 4 months ago by  Brandie Tarvin.

I dearly wish I could, just to test, but Corporate had a whole to-do about...

Running VS as Administrator didn't work. I tried copying the package to my desktop and running it in 2019 and that didn't work.

I'm going to ask a coworker who has...

Yes, I am local admin. ...

First step just add some simple file logging to the powershell script, just a hello at the start and good by eat the end to a temp file. ...

First step just add some simple file logging to the powershell script, just a hello at the start and good by eat the end to a temp file.  That...