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February 28, 2017 at 9:32 am
Look into the OnError Event Handler. It's where you can get the exact error message in a variable that you can then put into an audit table, email, etc.
February 28, 2017 at 9:10 am
Data scientists are still on the front lines. But by playing with machine learning for the same tasks we can start seeing what works, what doesn't, and what's just weird.
February 27, 2017 at 7:14 am
February 23, 2017 at 9:18 am
If you've got SSIS around you can use the Data Profiling Task to find out the columns that have mostly or all NULL values. Then you can build your query...
February 23, 2017 at 9:15 am
Half of me wants to figure out how to block him so I never see another post. Half of me considers it a train wreck I can't help watching.
February 21, 2017 at 2:09 pm
Since Microsoft was ever so helpful to remove database diagrams from Visio Pro (without telling anyone so we wouldn't buy the newer versions) what are people using to generate those...
February 9, 2017 at 12:18 pm
One of my previous jobs had a very rigorous code review process. It wasn't really a joke that if you made it through code review without crying it was a...
January 27, 2017 at 8:06 am
I've looked back a few pages to see if anyone brought this up but didn't see it.
I miss being able to see who submitted a question. It was...
January 18, 2017 at 10:18 am
I feel the unbearable need to brag and no one here would understand why I think I did such an awesome process design.
I work with data scientists who use ad-hoc...
January 11, 2017 at 2:46 pm
We found, much to our surprise and dismay, that starting with 2012 (I believe) that some previously unicode characters were accepted by non-unicode fields.
This caused much head scratching and profanity...
December 14, 2016 at 9:50 am
drew.allen (12/13/2016)
Does any else think that this response borders on being unethical? http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/FindPost1842475.aspx It sounds like she wants to use this approach just to avoid due diligence.
I'd...
December 13, 2016 at 10:15 am
paul.kemner (11/30/2016)
David.Poole (11/30/2016)
Has anyone blown the whistle and NOT had to leave the company shortly afterwards? Did the act of whistle blowing damage your long term career?
As long as...
November 30, 2016 at 7:34 am
Review those 'boring routine tasks' to see if they help bring a new hire up to speed on the company's systems. And then ask them where they would improve them....
November 21, 2016 at 10:03 am
Tea bags
3 kinds of OTC pain killers (I blame SSIS)
USB phone charging cable
Lens and screen cleaner wipes
Now on my desk I have:
2" foam D&D dice
Engineer dice
Lego Loki
Deadpool Heroclix
Neko Atsume Tubbs...
November 15, 2016 at 10:08 am
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