{"id":25,"date":"2017-11-19T01:26:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-19T01:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/lisa\/post\/2017\/11\/19\/brevity-is-usually-the-soul-of-witless.aspx"},"modified":"2017-11-19T01:26:00","modified_gmt":"2017-11-19T01:26:00","slug":"brevity-is-usually-the-soul-of-witless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/lisa\/2017\/11\/19\/brevity-is-usually-the-soul-of-witless\/","title":{"rendered":"Brevity is usually the Soul of Witless"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>I really hate Twitter.<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Oh, but you know that.&nbsp; You&#8217;ve seen how long my blog posts are.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>No, <strong>really<\/strong>.&nbsp; I&#8217;m tired not only of people who think deep and significant ideas can be reduced to a maximum number of characters, or that political discourse in this country should be reduced to that level, but also of all other twits who mistake vapid-and-incomplete for pithy-and-curated in the tech realm.<\/p>\n<p>Complexity takes length and time, to consume as well as to create.&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Deal with it, or you won&#8217;t have a foundation for&nbsp;<em>whatever<\/em> you are trying to build.<\/p>\n<h2>Shiny?<\/h2>\n<p>I&#8217;m also not enamored of people who mistake form for substance.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>OTOH, I just spent a lot of time upgrading my<a title=\"BlogEngine GitHub repository\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/rxtur\/BlogEngine.NET\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> BlogEngine<\/a> instance and I spent more time tweaking my styles and theme than anything else to do it.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Why? Because I&#8217;m willing to concede that&nbsp;enabling the consumer to get through a complex, wordy topic in an organized,&nbsp;engaging presentation&nbsp;is part of the creator&#8217;s job.<\/p>\n<p>So here&#8217;s a short but maybe still&nbsp;substantial post, to test the new form.<\/p>\n<h2>YAPS on Report Subscriptions: Moving an SSRS instance to another server<\/h2>\n<p>The steps to move an SSRS instance are pretty straightforward, in the main, but in the midst of a production move, you may find yourself with two running instances temporarily.&nbsp; (Not talking about a desired scale-out, here.)&nbsp; Here&#8217;s some simple code I use to generate statements that will disable all SSRS-owned subscriptions on a server.<\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush:sql;auto-links:false;toolbar:false\" contenteditable=\"false\">use msdb\ngo\nselect 'exec dbo.sp_update_job @enabled = 0, @job_name = '''+ name + '''' as cmd\n, * from sysjobs\nwhere enabled = 1 and\n(\n &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;try_convert(uniqueidentifier,name,0) is not null\n&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;--len(name) = len(replace(name,'-','')) + 4 if lower than 2012 is a hacky subst\n &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; or description like 'This job is owned by a report server process%'\n )  ;\n<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I save the generated statements to a file, so that I can re-enable exactly that set of jobs (or mark them in some other way) later.<\/p>\n<p>I could go on here (what else is entailed in moving an SSRS instance?&nbsp; What are the soup-to-nuts steps?)&#8230; you know I&#8217;m good for it&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>But this time, I won&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>And just to show you I&#8217;m not entirely a curmudgeon, I&#8217;m going to enable comments on this post, to see what happens.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Mind you, if I get blasted with cr*p, comments are going right back off.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I really hate Twitter. &nbsp; Oh, but you know that.&nbsp; You&#8217;ve seen how long my blog posts are. &nbsp; No, really.&nbsp; I&#8217;m tired not only of people who think deep and significant ideas can be reduced to a maximum number of characters, or that political discourse in this country should be reduced to that level,<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/lisa\/2017\/11\/19\/brevity-is-usually-the-soul-of-witless\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reporting","category-sql-server","category-yaps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/lisa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/lisa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/lisa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/lisa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/lisa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/lisa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/lisa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/lisa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spacefold.com\/lisa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}