Happy thanksgiving but if you want to get out of the work, go green and cut out the outside lights, thus reducing the ambient light in the rural setting, saving...

Where I work, staff have to display a current parking permit specific to the vehicle and visitors have to park in visitors car park (no staff allowed there) and register...

As well as the above, See if you can get a "clean" development VM to work on without the shed loads of other databases.

And keep looking for other jobs! :crazy:

How about the free reporting services scripter? http://thandor.net/article/28

I've used it to move loads of reports between servers with great ease.

That is just brilliant and I can immediately see a use on our NSN part numbers which are very similar format.

Thanks 🙂

I kept my married surname on divorce firstly because it was easiest to have the same family name as my school age children and also because it was simple and...

Yup, I've seen that at every company I've worked for. An FTE can be saying something for 2 years and nothing happens, but when a high-priced consultant comes in and...

Just caught up on The Thread again after a while... and yes, there's a new lot who can't even press f1 or Google for help on something as basic as...

As a female developer over 40 it looks like my job prospects are minimal - depressing message on a Monday morning 🙁

But thank goodness for the public sector as...

Usually this means you've got something wrong with the data source that the report is connected to. Either you hadn't deployed the data source with the report or it was...

As usual the answer is "It depends .... "

What other software and how much of it is the business using - if you're a Microsoft shop as we are, you...

I always read the email on my 2 x 1920px wide desktop monitors and since the layout change have given up reading from QOTD onwards as it's just more hassle....

+1 FAR TOO NARROW AND UNREADABLE.

I have two wide screens. This new layout uses one tiny little eighth of my screen estate.

If you need a mobile format...

This is why I love the Ola Hallengren backup solution - set it for all user databases and you know that anything developers create will get backed up even if...

Linked reports - read this http://markvsql.com/2010/01/linked-reports-getting-the-montagues-and-capulets-to-share/[/url]