It does sound like your login doesn't have access. Might be time to reinstall. If you picked Windows auth only and didn't add your login appropriately, getting in to this...

Ah, I do miss those parties.

Also, if a lot of code is generated, then the process of literally learning how to write that code is also going to be curtailed. Getting from junior to senior,...

Grant is right about the benefits of having interests outside of work and family.  I am a member of the Tadley Men's Shed, and enjoy a lot of the...

There is an organization in town that runs a...

I find that prod data is...

I've never used it, especially not in anger, so I've got nothing. However, I've reached out to see if I can get someone over here to help out.

Your state may already have a law about it. I was just talking to the IT staff of another state and they had one. I think most states do. But...

There I was, with a written, thank the gods, command, "Whenever a developer asks for a copy of production, give it to them."

A developer asked and I hooked him up.

Said...

Thank you all for the feedback and comments.

I would like to point out that I did emphasize "collectively" we stink. Individually, there were people running Crowdstrike on Windows who weren't...

Think of it as a toggle. Instead of off to on, it's like to unlike. So you hit like, it marks it as a like, but changes it to unlike...

They are pretty desperate to make this not about them. It isn't... but it also is.

Steve, Ryan and I were traveling on Friday. It was a mess, but Steve and I made it home....

Unless you have some kind of direct evidence that anything is causing a problem, leave it alone. Don't kill sessions without knowledge of there being an issue.

There isn't a single correct answer to this. Here's my list of "I'm gonna need this" software:

SQL Server Management Studio

Azure Data Studio

VS Code

Git

Docker

Redgate Toolbelt (yes, I work for them, but...