Now it's in a novel/comic format, I might read it

Currently using Veeam. It has a short I/O freeze when it backups when VSS writer orders SQL to pause for a few seconds.

It makes it easier for the sysadmins in...

Congratulations!

We have a hybrid approach. I prefer working at the office, but I only have a commute of 15 minutes and my home isn't really setup for remote work.

Many work...

We began switching to c# scripts in SSIS to parse the excel and output the required columns

As SSIS get a litte love lately, thinking of moving to c#, powershell. We don't have very complicated workloads and excel is being read by a c# script inside SSIS

Thanks for sharing

A little late for the preview of the SQL 2025 feature list:

https://www.brentozar.com/archive/2025/04/whats-new-in-sql-server-2025-2/

It will, all the new students basically grow up with GenAI,

That were AI may come in handy to manage the complexity

Thanks for mentioning the new interesting commands.

According to https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/t-sql/functions/jaro-winkler-distance-transact-sql?view=azuresqldb-current it's still in preview

Times flies, thanks for the reminder. Didn't switch yet to 2022

Had to create a custom role on the resourcegroup https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql/database/database-import?view=azuresql&tabs=azure-powershell

Instant file initialization in sql 2022? https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/databases/database-instant-file-initialization?view=sql-server-ver16

However the latency points to hardware ( perhaps an ssd buffer got full, your sql server got migrated to slower storage due inactivity ...)

Probably switch to PostGres or start developing again