I've never been too concerned with titles, except in a few organizations where they didn't use or really understand DBAs. In those cases, mostly to fit in with HR groups...

Cut/paste strikes again. I edited the wrong item and made #1 correct. I've changed it to be incorrect.

One model, which I imagine will be familiar to Redgate, is the SQLSaturday / Sharepoint Saturday co-branded events hosted in Cambridge. Two websites, two mailing lists, two CFPs, one...

Thanks, Chris,

Personally, just for the sake of keeping things going, I'd like to see more people run virtual events this year. I think you need less people to run one,...

Kristen, you might try this: http://blogs.lobsterpot.com.au/2021/02/09/adapting-the-tools-of-my-trade/

It's on my list to get working.

Glad you liked the reasonable part, and I slowly see people having better setups for working, and at the same time, I see more people that have desks using their...

Ugh, that's a crazy schedule. This is something we're likely to still live with for 6+ months, so having reasonable hours is important.

Glad you liked them. They're helping me brush up skills and learn new ones.

+1 to Eddie's note.

I believe the direct in-situ upgrade has been restricted, but bu/restore has not been

I believe you could use PowerShell to do this. Connect with the Az PowerShell module (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/azure/new-azureps-module-az?view=azps-5.5.0) and use that to read the file names and locations. You can then...

Please do. I don't have an easy way to test this, but I am curious. I thought the msc just would have calls in it, so depending on the code...

I would think that the 2019 config mgr plugin would connect to the 2017 instance. While you could move over the msc, I have no idea if there are underlying...

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/