Asked the question as part of the triage and planning for this work about how many threads might be affected, or might be exceptions.

Keeping open article discussions is a good idea. My initial thought is that we exempt them from closing.

I don't think we should eliminate CHAR, or that it shouldn't be used. I hope no one thought that was the point. More, I was curious how others view things.

As...

The spam hasn't been a huge problem from what I've seen, and it's less about email. More, the processing on the web server in WordPress is choking slightly.

Rumors are dangerous beasts.

We run WordPress under Project Nami - https://projectnami.org/

Means a double patch process, but we can submit PRs to Nami to fix things that don't work well.

I've...

Maybe. I'd like to think that we prevent a posting here, so no one is notified, which should prevent there being two.

I have asked for data analysis of threads where...

".. Snowflake is something that a company can run on AWS, Amazon, or GCP .."

Maybe you meant to say Azure instead of "Amazon", but Snowflake can be hosted in...

Just as a straw poll, what if we had threads older than 1 year - latest post date <= dateadd (year, -1, getdate) - closed when someone tries to post...

You might be just under the 2k limit. For the most part, this shouldn't be anything you notice, although if someone posted to the 2002nd oldest thread, you just wouldn't...

Yep, when you reply, there's a checkbox below:

For most of us, we've accumulated subcriptions by...

FYI: limiting subscriptions: https://www.sqlservercentral.com/forums/topic/breaking-change-feb-9-2022

This only affects these accounts:

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Grant Fritchey | 10001

Jeff Moden | 10001

Lynn Pettis | 9615

Steve Jones | 8871

Phil Parkin...

That explanation is why you have two log files. If you need xx amount, and no drives can support that, you can use two ldf files across two drives.

Say I...

I'm a small and light person, so I use the HP Spectre, but that's not likely what you want.

I hear good things about Lenovo from friends that get the workstation...

I think the important thing is to reflect on the lessons learned and ask what we would do better with the benefit of hindsight.

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The point is these are both...

In my experience, agility wins over perfection.  Mainly because perfection never arrives at the fight!  That being said, no testing at all can be a little too agile.  ...