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(, Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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IT shit
*works it IT*

Got some database wizardry to perform for a customer this weekend
(, Fri 9 Jan 2015, 11:35, 2 replies, latest was 10 years ago)
THRILLING ENDEAVOURS

(, Fri 9 Jan 2015, 11:37, Reply)
I'll be reducing a 95GB database to 45GB!
GET ME!
(, Fri 9 Jan 2015, 11:37, Reply)
Holy fuckoly ... that sounds almost as exciting as plumbing regulations

(, Fri 9 Jan 2015, 11:43, Reply)
you think that's exciting?
I'm actually plumbing.
(, Fri 9 Jan 2015, 11:55, Reply)
yeah ... but you prolly get to wear a manly tool belt and nip out to screwfix for parts

(, Fri 9 Jan 2015, 12:29, Reply)
And I'm spent.

(, Fri 9 Jan 2015, 11:44, Reply)
In the amount he's paying you he could just buy more storage and say 'fuck it'.

(, Fri 9 Jan 2015, 11:46, Reply)
11 pence is pretty cheap for 50gigs of storage

(, Fri 9 Jan 2015, 11:48, Reply)
The problem is they have runaway processes so by next month it'll be about 120GB

(, Fri 9 Jan 2015, 11:52, Reply)
It sounds like you're curing the symptoms and not the cause.

(, Fri 9 Jan 2015, 12:02, Reply)
No, this will be doing both
Terminating rogue looping processes, dump and reload to reclaim space
(, Fri 9 Jan 2015, 12:03, Reply)
I dumped my reload in YM or saink.

(, Fri 9 Jan 2015, 12:23, Reply)
is weekend work common for you in IT then?

(, Fri 9 Jan 2015, 11:54, Reply)
Yeah, all the time
Customers don't want any downtime on their systems during the week
(, Fri 9 Jan 2015, 11:56, Reply)
what cunts
Poo in a drawer in the archives room.
(, Fri 9 Jan 2015, 12:11, Reply)
I'll be working from home so I'll do it there

(, Fri 9 Jan 2015, 12:15, Reply)

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