Apologies for not knowing but what does "IAC" stand for in this context?

In my quick look at your article this morning, I may have missed it... are you using the paid version for ChatGPT?

I love how people tip-toe around this subject.  Oh... it's not going to eliminate DBA jobs... we'll just be able to get along with 3 people instead of 5 to...

If you're going to start talking about Random GUIDs (uniqueIdentifier type not using NEWSEQUENTIALIUD()), then you absolutely MUST watch the following video, which proves that what most people think they...

I wonder what the "compute cost" of these new functions is?

Thanks for your comments. I understand your points and I would like to clarify a couple of things.

Regarding the execution time difference, batch updates are faster because they reduce...

So drop...

To be honest, I'd delete the REORGANIZE job and disable the REBUILD job.  Microsoft finally took down the 5/30 supposed "Best Practices" on 20 April 2021 and a lot of...

Ditto that.

While I do have an appreciation for anyone that steps up to share information, there are a couple of serious problems with the supposed "Practical Use Cases" in the article...

First,...

Humm... I couldn't get it to work.  You gave: 'USE ? select DB_NAME(DB_ID(''?''))

But I don't know the database name. The server has many databases. I want to search all...

It could be anything.  Did they switch domains that one of the machines was on?  Did they add any new switches or routers or make any "settings changes".  We had...

Thanks for the links, Martin.

I'm curious... what does the lowest level of management think of what you said.  Has anyone even told them?  And how about the next level or two above that?  Have...

Just to say it out loud... It's very likely that I'll never post anything on GitHub.  However... a lot of companies insist that if you're not adding to GitHub on...