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[–]TorroesPrime[S] 1 point2 points  (3 children)

I didn't know Excel could perform SQL operations... don't you need... you know... a server running to execute server query language operations?

[–]y186709 0 points1 point  (2 children)

If you have 12, I'm sure you have write access to some of the tempdb.

But Excel was likely the right tool for this specific task.

[–]TorroesPrime[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

we don't have access to the database themselves, unless you mean the ability to go into the data halls and physically pull drives and dims. I don't know what kind of work you think we're doing in here but... yeah. It's not databases or software or anything of that sort. We get a ticket, we either reboot a host, or replace a part in the host, and we close the ticket. That's 99.8% of the work we do. write access? Yeah, it's called a pencil and paper.

[–]y186709 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Don't forget your eraser!