That's a great point. I hadn't thought about the variation between two people doing a process, but certainly there could be more or less steps, or more or less detail,...

https://clusteringformeremortals.com/2018/10/29/step-by-step-how-to-trigger-an-email-alert-when-a-windows-service-starts-or-stops-on-windows-server-2016/

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/25323102/email-alerts-for-windows-services

https://davegugg.wordpress.com/2015/01/26/sending-alerts-when-reporting-services-job-fail/

I think anything is up for discussion. TUellner, how would you see this organized? If you need a sample schedule, here's one: https://sqlsathistory.com/SQLSat0962.html

If a Windows Service stops, you can configure actions in the "Recovery" tab for that service. One option is run a program. You would need to run a program that...

That code runs fine on my 2017 and 2019 instances.

I am biased, and I agree with Randolph.

The argument on my part is that the branding is powerful. Lots of people know the same and website, so that has a...

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I have seen talks at SQL Saturdays on:

• Oracle
• MongoDB
• Python
• Game design and Android
• Neo4J
• messaging with AWS

I think there is plenty of variety, but not necessarily marketed. That...

I agree with allowing customization of logos, colors, taglines, etc.

These are the type of reads on the table (First) and joins (second) being made between tables. The % is the percent potion of the query these two are taking....

This might help: http://www.nikoport.com/2020/08/06/restoring-sql-server-backup-files-from-azure-blob-storage/

I'll echo Grant's statements. While 2014 introduced a new cardinality optimizer, there aren't a lot of changes for many queries. They do keep trying to improve the way the optimizer...

How do you know what features are there or missing? Is there a list of features?

I would always go latest. You're going to pay for that anyway, and with the 10yr lifetime of patches, anything other than 2019 is already digging into it's lifetime. Features...

Edit: Had noted LAST VALUE, but that's not helpful here.

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I am interested in what you mean? I know some organizers wanted to have a different logo. I see both sides on this, but I'd support allowing different ones. I...