Gonna be a close matchup for me this week. See if Kyler or Watson wins the duel at QB.

If I understand this, you are inserting data into a staging table in Azure SQL from an on-premises table. Then, you want to essentially upsert or merge this data into...

Dr. Low wrote about this recently: https://blog.greglow.com/2017/11/06/linked-servers-dont-hard-code-server-names/

Is this the next date, meaning today is <= to the date in the table?

What I'd do is set up a number of scenarios to query, so you can test...

You are welcome, and thank you for the kind words. Hope you're well and have a great holiday.

the page thing is a bug, but as with many in software, it's a tiny fairly small bug. It's obscure, and doesn't reproduce with small threads. It's some weird combination...

Sounds weird. I don't think this is likely just SQL Server. I would start checking to be sure nothing else in infrastructure changed. If you are backing up 200GB now...

Voting forces a choice. Do I want A, B, or C. consensus allows me to say A, but not B, C is OK. We can come to a choice around...

We certainly shouldn't from tech companies. The problem is that scientists and government often don't have good expertise, especially around security. Really, it's a mess all around.

Thanks, I've let a few authors know, but I'll try to ensure this goes out to more of them.

If you see errors, I'd urge you to Pm the author. Don't...

I don't think I was complaining or noting that any executive decision was wrong or incorrect. This was a black swan, an unprecedented event.

However, what I was getting at is...

There is no support for other languages right now, however, you can't just use Java to execute a script. This might be nit picky, and perhaps the answers aren't good,...

That helps. I'll file a ticket to see if we can change this.

I don't worry too much about collection. At least not as much as why do we keep it. If we can get rid of it an reduce liability, do that.

If...

that toxic PII is something I have some customers rethinking. It's a liability if they lose data, and one that often isn't even generating revenue.