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I had the misfortune today of becoming the target of verbal abuse and threats from a highly agitated DB admin  who had graciously logged me onto the department's production server (from a remote, from another remote) so that I could restore one of our sql databases, etc. to support some new features. This should be a piece of cake, especially since I'm logged on as Administrator, and SSMS logs in without a hitch. He had other things to attend to, so he left me to do what I needed to...a simple restore...what could go wrong? 
Things were going just as planned. The new backup file was ready and waiting, so I get to the point in SSMS where I browse to the backup file...click Add...wait...wait...  get impatient and click the window...get the familiar (Not Responding) and wait some more. Getting more impatient, I launch another instance of SSMS and try it again...same results, except that I now have two instances of SSMS in a non-responsive state.  I was about to call him for help when, apparently, he walked past the terminal where I was logged on, took control of the mouse, and immediately closed the remote. About 10 seconds later, as expected, he called and verbally assaulted me for 'crashing' his server. Any suggestions I had such as 'are you sure all the backup devices are connected?' were met with scoffs and the insistence that 'it worked last week' and more cursing about having to restart the server...  After a few minutes of listening to him reviewing the event logs, I finally got him to calm down and before restarting the server, reconnect me so that I could try to help. We got the SSMS instances closed and he needed to see it happen for himself so we replicated the issue...click Add...frozen.  (he went through this at least 4 times, getting more pissed each time!) I suggested we navigate via explorer to the default backup folder, which he thought was a stupid idea. When he did, explorer froze...no error, nothing. Luckily, this folder was on a removable drive so I had him disconnect it and viola, everything was working again! He suddenly became very apologetic since he must have felt like a real a**hole! The lesson is, don't jump to conclusions and don't let unjustified rage affect your ability to be civil to the person trying to help you out of a jam (and especially if it's being recorded!)...it just makes you look stupid. What no :stupid: icon?
In the end, I was able to get my job done, albeit with the eyes of the admin watching every click! Also, I knew from the moment I hit the first snag with SSMS that I might get blamed for it...like borrowing the old man's car and the transmission fails before you get out of the driveway! Yeah, he was angry too! 
Well, it's too late in the day to start anything, and frankly, I've had enough! Have a great weekend everyone!
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Fark it and fark them.
Have a beer, get laid, and take a nap. Call it a day, and have some fun.
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Slacker007 wrote: Have a beer, get laid, and take a nap.
You make that sound so easy. For me, one of those would most likely mean a relapse, and the other would, right now, require a lady for hire. I'll just have to console myself with a solid sleep.
No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly. - Oscar Wilde
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I don't drink anymore; sober since 2001. I am married. I nap like there is no tomorrow.
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I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less. 
Contrary to popular belief, nobody owes you anything.
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Mike Mullikin wrote: I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less.
I'll have to steal this one.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
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Courtesy of my 82 year old uncle. Still going strong! ![Beer | [beer]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/beer.gif)
Contrary to popular belief, nobody owes you anything.
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I'll drink to that!
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
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Slacker007 wrote: don't drink anymore;
I can't go that far, but will admit to not drinking enough...tonight may be an exception!
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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My bad: read that as a 'solid sheep'. Taken in context with the previous bit I thought, well, you know what I thought!
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Haha. Yeah, well, if a sheep was in any way feasible it may also have crossed my mind, you know what I mean.
No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly. - Oscar Wilde
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DBA's are the one too thick to even do ops!
veni bibi saltavi
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I resemble that!
Mongo: Mongo only pawn... in game of life.
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Hey the guy apologised when he realised he was in the wrong, some would continue to heap the blame on you somehow. Do the really weird thing and buy him a beer, "I thought you needed to relax" is the response when he asks why.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Good advice! I harbor no ill feelings for the chap. He just seems to have an anger management issue. Besides, it was the production server and I'd probably be highly upset if something weird like that started happening to one of my 'puters after someone else was messing around with it. Anyhow, I still offered to help him with the outstanding issue of a possibly corrupt (or locked) file/directory. I don't think I'll be having a beer with the guy though!
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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kmoorevs wrote: Besides, it was the production server
I've been banned from touching the production servers, they won't give me a logon, it WAS my fault when the production DB was trashed  .
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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It's a very good advice.
DBAs get all the flak when something goes wrong but never any appreciation otherwise.
So passive aggressiveness is a normal state for them.
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So you all know that it would just be smart to turn off your monitors at the end of the work day. Sure, trying to restart your machine would take 10 minutes by the time you got your Browsers, Editors, Database Manager and Development Environments restarted after a reboot, but monitors come on instantly. Each monitor would be like turning off a 40 watt light bulb and if you are serious, you have two of those going. If all of us got it together, we could turn off the capacity of a nuclear reactor... and what's more valuable than those little electrons that make our CPUs work? Leave them in the power line instead of converting them to worthless photons that are just scrambling around and heading off into space? It's just a smart thing to do.
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Or you could get 99% of the energy savings without the lost time penalty by just letting them go into standby instead of running a screen saver when you're not around. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I can't cope with that... I hate, truly hate to be staring at the display thinking on a problem and suddenly the screen goes blank...  Not for me, and I hate moving the mouse from time to time while thinking... Have I said that I hate it already?
Anyway I always shut them down when I leave the office by any reason...
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Hah screen saver set for 30 minutes, if I'm still chewing on a problem in that time I put it aside for the day, let the sub conscious work on it over night.
The downside of that is waking up at 4am with an idea on how to fix the problem.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Not an option... I would never sleep...
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I've always done that and many of the people I have worked with have also done so. But then I would walk around the house turning off lights and shutting doors. Yes, I have become my dad, damn it!
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Yah, ain't that the truth, but it could be worse.
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Thanks, you are right: my dad is a damned good man. 
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