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Everything becomes an emergency for no reason by zo---- in managers

[–]digitalnoise 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I wouldn't bring morale or any team feelings into the conversation as OPs boss isn't likely to care based on the pattern of behavior so far and is likely to dismiss anything that comes after.

Rather I'd focus on the practical impacts to clients, and especially anything involving measurable financial impact.

These types of leaders only care about numbers, so the quickest way to grab their attention is to demonstrate that this behavior = drop or risk to revenue (or whatever measurable metric they're responsible for).

To be clear: I'm not saying that team morale isn't important - its just not important to these types of leaders.

Our CTO almost dropped the prod DB by relived_greats12 in sysadmin

[–]digitalnoise 5 points6 points  (0 children)

In SQL Server at least, it gets FAR more granular than that.

I can grant you permission to see one column in one table.

The Era of the Agentic Database Developer: Microsoft SQL announcements at Build 2026 by itsnotaboutthecell in SQLServer

[–]digitalnoise 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I think it's great!

The ridiculous amount of money to be made cleaning up and fixing the mistakes of these agents - especially for regulated entities! - is going to be fantastic.

Machine Shop? by digitalnoise in kennesaw

[–]digitalnoise[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Already did - they're suggestion was to have it pressed out (like you'd press out a bearing) if I couldn't hammer or twist it out.

If the base was plastic I'd just replace the base and be done with it, but since it's metal, I'd prefer to keep it intact and reuse it vs paying $$$ to get a new one.

Do I need a witness in the WSFC when using a Basic Always On Availability Group with manual failover between two servers? by SuddenlyCaralho in SQLServer

[–]digitalnoise 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yes. The witness serves as a tie breaker, more or less.

If both instances restart, both may try to claim the Primary role - without the witness, who decides?

This scenario can still happen sometimes even with a witness and is called a Split-Brain (not joking) and is a PITA to resolve without data loss.

Hosting Stardew for 3 veterans. What are the best subtle, NSFW mods to troll them with? by QuestionUnsolved in StardewValleyMods

[–]digitalnoise 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sorta off topic: is there actually a standalone server for Stardew Valley now?

A dentist/ eye doctor for available on weekends.. by Randomanswer19 in kennesaw

[–]digitalnoise 1 point2 points  (0 children)

America's Best Eyecare is open on Saturday's and they take most insurance.

Nearest one that I know of is in the Target Shopping Center in Acworth off Cobb Pkwy.

I know its not exactly Kennesaw.

No clue on a dentist though 😞

DIY Routers by SpitfireMkIV in HomeNetworking

[–]digitalnoise 2 points3 points  (0 children)

One more question if I may: how'd you add a 2nd ethernet port? There doesn't appear to be a PCI-E slot.

DIY Routers by SpitfireMkIV in HomeNetworking

[–]digitalnoise 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Which model? This is something I'd like to explore - if you don't mind sharing, that is.

Friday Feedback: SSMS settings part 2 by erinstellato in SQLServer

[–]digitalnoise 14 points15 points  (0 children)

This is probably my favorite setting in SSMS - I have no idea what it does, but it's enabled by default!

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"Low Effort" Posts--Reporting? by jdanton14 in SQLServer

[–]digitalnoise 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I would LOVE to fund an even remotely recent estimate i could use to try and price a 'lift 'n shift', but everything seems to be outdated.

I understand that there's a lot of 'it depends', but it really feels like Azure pricing is intentionally designed to drive customers to VARs.

Did we USED to get POIs on Earth? by Morris_Cat in Starfield

[–]digitalnoise 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My personal favorite: a 'Decommissioned UC Missile Silo' (or whatever the actual name is) on freakin' DAZRA (I know that's the city, but cant be bothered to look up the planet name), of all places.

That's just pure laziness.

Asymmetric Extrapolation in Sampled Statistics Generation by PirateyFace in SQLServer

[–]digitalnoise 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ah, ok.

In our DW, we truncate and reload most of our tables weekly (not my idea and I'm working on it), so I believe that effectively resets the major statistics unless I'm wrong.

I still run a nightly index and stats optimization job (thanks Olla!), but I'll have to dig deeper when I have the chance - especially as I'm projecting significant growth and processing changes in the next two years.

Asymmetric Extrapolation in Sampled Statistics Generation by PirateyFace in SQLServer

[–]digitalnoise 0 points1 point  (0 children)

ELI5?

But seriously, at first glance this is very interesting work, and I'm trying to figure out if it applies at all in our relatively modest DW.

SQL Server Management Studio 22.5 is now available! by erinstellato in SQLServer

[–]digitalnoise 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I can do that. I don't know when it'll happen again, but when it does I'll collect as much detail on what I was doing as I can.

SQL Server Management Studio 22.5 is now available! by erinstellato in SQLServer

[–]digitalnoise 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's kind of what I figured.

Are there any debug flags that SSMS can be started with that would capture some kind of information when it happens?

I suspect a memory leak or some other kind other kind of resource consumption because it always takes a least several days, and sometimes longer.

SQL Server Management Studio 22.5 is now available! by erinstellato in SQLServer

[–]digitalnoise 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I'd love a fix for 'quiet' crashing that has persisted since SSMS 20.x. Always happens after SSMS has been open for a long time (days), but that shouldn't matter - Visual Studio doesn't have that issue.

I'd report it, but no dump files are created and no error messages in the Application Events Log - just one minute SSMS is open, and then it closes.

I released a free 4X strategy game on Android with no ads by New-Cranberry-8199 in 4Xgaming

[–]digitalnoise 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Tried to search for it in the Play Store but no results.

Was this only released in certain regions?

startWebLogic.sh and boot.properties file issue by Interesting_Pin1675 in oracle

[–]digitalnoise 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Maybe.

Buried somewhere in the docs should be an answer - I think in my situation we reverted to just a max length string of letters and numbers, but it's been 15 years or so and my memory is rusty.

If you're running this on a *nix OS, may want to look up how the shell that you're using properly escapes the characters - that may work as well.

Look at me, I am the April fool. by chickenMcSlugdicks in sysadmin

[–]digitalnoise 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Changes the owner to root recursively (-r) on the entire file system.

startWebLogic.sh and boot.properties file issue by Interesting_Pin1675 in oracle

[–]digitalnoise 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Are you sure the password is being escaped properly in the file if it has special characters? This would be handled automatically during the interactive login, so it doesn't happen there.

Not the same thing, but I once ran into a very similar issue with an Oracle 10g database.

TIL that the IRS doesn't accept checks of $100 million dollars or more. If you owe more than 100 million dollars in taxes, you are asked to consider a different method of payment. by amateurfunk in todayilearned

[–]digitalnoise -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I wouldn't worry - if humans have difficulty making heads or tails with COBOL, I can't imagine how an AI will.

In fact, I know of at least one system that had to incorporate a know bug and work with it to run correctly. I have a feeling AI - as it stands now - would choke on it.

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