You never know what metric you need until you need it. I think there is good reason to capture a lot of them, but also archive/delete them over time.

I agree,...

Ooohhh, I like that.

You might start here: https://www.sqlservercentral.com/stairways/stairway-to-alwayson

You also will want to set some goals. What is the reason you want 3 instances in some HA config? What constraints or requirements are...

Happy New Year, hopefully everyone is starting the year out on a good note.

I guess I should save mine as well.

There is a lot of hype about Python being used in data science, in data movement (Scraping, etl, etc.) and more. You can execute Python code inside of SQL Server....

Placeholder for the 2021 league: https://www.sqlservercentral.com/forums/topic/ssc-fantasy-football-2021

Also, found my other trophy:

The rules we've set at Redgate is that you need to be able to get to an office if needed, with a day's notice. So they're trying to ask most...

About what I expected, and I think many tech workers are in the same boat. I do hope to go back, but no idea when.

Not sure what your question is. You need an exclusive lock to make a change. You don't do anything, but the server cannot complete your work to get the exclusive...

In short, yes. Moving something that exists and replicating a lot of the initial infra can be time consuming. I've seen migrations take a year.

However, most of that is learning...

One of your best editorials of 2020, Steve. This is exactly what I want to do while I'm taking time off. I'd been challenged to do from other groups...

Winners, (1-4), PM me a current email for either an Amazon GC or Paypal. Let me know which one.

This is two for me. Not sure if I have the old trophy Yahoo sent me. Might have been a COVID cleaning casualty, but finally got a second one.

Still chasing...