I liked the old functionality (report 3 times, then boom).

Steve, as you know there are a million different types of shops that use SQL server and they all require different approaches. Yes people need to improve their skills...

Most people aren't all that good at their jobs, to be fair. The bar is incredibly low and most people get by being fairly mediocre.

My DBA skills are definitely...

Steve and others, thanks very much for all the hard work on this. There are clearly some teething problems still but I'm well aware that we don't pay for this...

Also I think I've seen this mentioned elsewhere but I can't find it now; could we have the ability to report and kill spam back please?

Firstly, thank you all for the hard work on this site.

There doesn’t seem to be a recent posts option anymore, there’s only latest topics which doesn’t help if you...

I think "Yes" just means that if you connect directly to the secondary database, it's accessible, whereas "Read-intent only" means that you have a read-only routing URL configured, and connections...

Additionally (and sorry if I've missed it somewhere) could we have the option to hide signatures and/or avatars please? Usually it's an option in the user control panel,

You probably know this but you can only take copy-only full backups on the secondary, so if the backup script doesn't specify copy-only that might be why it keeps defaulting...

I'm not quite sure what you're after exactly, but one thing to bear in mind is that read queries on a readable replica can block write queries on the primary...

There's a trace flag (1448) you may want to consider using if you're doing this. See what you think.

See here 

Interesting question. I was interviewing for a DBA yesterday, and when asked which aspect of SQL Server he considered himself strongest in, he said installation. I felt so embarrassed on...

Hah, thanks. I can't tell if it's an issue or not. We have some problems on this server and I'm trying to work out whether it might be a) useful...

Morning, all. Would you expect to see this message in the error log of a SQL instance that does NOT have Availability Groups enabled (and never has)? It is on...