Reply to: Went close to knocking out a "DBA"

[The Spartan]

hahahaha the continuously aggressive act works for me all the time, the dev's give up and fix whatever went wrong rather than rattle my cage

[MyUserName]

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

Wouldn't change the time out on a Dev server due to it not being best practice despite it aiding us in meeting an important deadline. Was continuously aggressive despite how polite everybody else was.

Got more and more aggressive until the rest of us all walked out f'ing and blinding.

I have never seen anything like anywhere where I have worked - where do you find these people? CUK?

[SpontaneousOrder]

Devs not owning their own tools is ****ed up.

[CheeseSlice]

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...)

More places than you have fingers.

'Policies' and Dev environments?, give me a break...

[NorthWestPerm2Contr]

Can't see that image as it is blocked by the network. I assume it is something nice though.

Cheers

[eek]

[NorthWestPerm2Contr]

I'm not a DBA. Never have been, never will be...

As NWP2C has never come to a CUK meet and I've never worked at Barclay's I think its save to say I've never had the (mis)fortune to work with him....

[eek]

So you've never met eek then?

I find that very hard to believe sonny.

I'm not a DBA. Never have been, never will be...

As NWP2C has never come to a CUK meet and I've never worked at Barclay's I think its save to say I've never had the (mis)fortune to work with him....

[NorthWestPerm2Contr]

So you've never met eek then?

I find that very hard to believe sonny.

Take a leap of faith perhaps?

[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.

[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!

[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...)

[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..

[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.

[TestMangler]

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

FTFY