Went close to knocking out a "DBA"

[NorthWestPerm2Contr]

I think he did a good job standing his ground and putting you tossers in your place, despite there being ten of you and him being 4' 4" and weighing 6 stone......

erm....

How did you know what he looked like?

[NorthWestPerm2Contr]

No DBA weighs only 6 stone.

Exactly, except for this one..... which leads me to believe that TestMangler must know who it is....

[MicrosoftBob]

No DBA weighs only 6 stone.

Stick him upside down in a wheelie bin, it will probably take him ages to escape if he's that much of a weakling

[Pogle]

I have never been spoken to in such a patronising way as was done by this stupid DBA. In the end we realised that meeting with the guy is just a waste of time.....

You should get out more......

[TestMangler]

Drop him arse first into a wheelie bin. That way he can give himself a blow job and will never come out

FTFY

[CheeseSlice]

What kind of wimpy devs need a DBA to run their dev environment for them?

I used to give them to the devs on the condition they didn't bother the support team with any issues. If it gets trashed they either get it flattened and a vanilla build put on it, or they fix their own tulip. Main thing is the devs don't get their grubby hands on any test environments, let alone production.

[KentPhilip]

Could you try running xp_cmdshell in the SQL client remotely, to run a command to change the time?
If he's that anally stupid then there's a good chance he has forgotten to disable access to extended stored procedures to users..

[NorthWestPerm2Contr]

What kind of wimpy devs need a DBA to run their dev environment for them?

I used to give them to the devs on the condition they didn't bother the support team with any issues. If it gets trashed they either get it flattened and a vanilla build put on it, or they fix their own tulip. Main thing is the devs don't get their grubby hands on any test environments, let alone production.

How many places have you worked at then? less than 2 perhaps?

Every company works differently and has it's own policies, it's not like I can break through the permissions settings and sort things out myself (well not without being terminated anyway...)

[NorthWestPerm2Contr]

Could you try running xp_cmdshell in the SQL client remotely, to run a command to change the time?
If he's that anally stupid then there's a good chance he has forgotten to disable access to extended stored procedures to users..

haha you think they would give us access to xp_cmdshell!

[NotAllThere]

Just met the most anal and stupid DBA in the world.

So you've never met eek then?

I have never been spoken to in such a patronising way....

I find that very hard to believe sonny.