Thank you for the cautions, Grant.

I always develop xEvents related stuff on my local box, then on a dev box, then on a QA box and only then ....

As...

You beat me to to use of phone iconography. It's not just cell phones though. We have "desk phones" in the form of VOIP on our PCs. There's no...

Hey Johan! I don't think debug_channel is an event. There is a Debug Channel in Extended Events, but it's a grouping of the events that are undocumented, minimally documented, and...

Just to be clear, nothing in a derived table, in and of itself, is necessarily a problem for the optimizer, resulting in poor performance. It's the specific implementation of your...

To a very large degree, a VM is a VM. If it's running locally, Azure, AWS, Google Cloud, doesn't matter. Yes, there are SQL Server configured VMs to pull from....

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...