For those of you that knew him, Gareth Swanepoel passed away on Friday - https://twitter.com/SQLBalls/status/1347722916700557319

He was a passionate member of the SQL community and a fellow speaker I've known...

First, I welcome the discussion in a respectful manner. I know we will all disagree about different things, but please be respectful as if we were friends in the same...

cheers

It's a crazy Azure restriction that we've complained to them about.

-n doesn't matter. This has nothing to do with data types. The return types are the same from a query, but the data is masked prior to being returned to...

https://documentation.red-gate.com/sm/adding-and-managing-monitored-servers/preparing-for-adding-monitored-servers/permissions-required-for-monitoring-servers

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.