I look forward to reading what you have to say about Flashback. It's something our Oracle DBA has set up on one of our systems, but I'd love to hear...

A few months ago my employer sent an email around to the IT department, reminding us that we are not full time remote workers but hybrid. I didn't reply to...

We're being forced to upgrade from 2019 to 2022 with my biggest database, as the vendor will no longer support 2019 after their next upgrade which we'll put...

We're being forced to upgrade from 2019 to 2022 with my biggest database, as the vendor will no longer support 2019 after their next upgrade which we'll put in later...

Your comments about the Intro to Linux course really encouraging, David Poole! I'm slogging through that Edx course (I'm still very near the beginning) because I need more Linux knowledge...

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I was completely put off by looking at the "average response time" at the top of the results -- 50 minutes? But after having a look at the results I...

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Thanks for the reminder, Grant, that fun means something different to all of us. I will remember your term "wrong fun". It does seem that a lot of people only...

I usually update SSMS shortly after a new version comes out. Since 19.3 had some security updates, and the security team at my company had recently identified some very old...

I agree, Grant. Replication is critical to my company, and there needs to be better ways of handling creating replication for large DB's (11TB, for example). It's painful to set...

I remember having a big learning curve from Query Analyzer to SSMS, but of course SSMS has almost everything I need. I've tried ADS, and I really wanted to use...

I would love to use SSMS 100% of the time and would gladly run Parallels on my Mac to do so if… I could actually read the screen. Vision...

I didn't know about Gladys West until I read your list. What an amazing woman.

Work-wise, 2021 was a big win for me. I changed jobs from being an everything DBA & developer at a medium sized company to being a production DBA in a...

I definitely feel the screen time fatigue! Although this newsletter is one of the few that I endeavour to read regularly, I support your decision to reduce the frequency.

I am in a position where I know too much about how things work, and I'm the only person who does. I am working to document things so that someone...

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