I'm in

A few people were asking on Twitter if they can get in, so if we don't have 12, I think we can fill theleague.

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Good luck, Lynn, Hope you find something.

Even dumb phones broadcast connections to cell towers, and those can be used to triangulate your location pretty well. Not like GPS, but closer than most of us might like....

I have a wireless video adapter I use as well to get movies to the living room TV now that we've removed satellite service from it, and the Wii is...

+1 to Scott's advice.

Interesting split of things. I definitely prefer my desktop, with 3 big screens, full keyboard.

However, on the road, I do like small, light laptops. I feel compromised when I need...

Your Unix server needs Samba/SMB access to get to the Windows file system.

Better than my Zoom. Just a cat jumping on the desk

We have some calls like that. I often join a US sales happy hour Thur afternoon and we have a random assignment call Fri am for the UK.

However, these aren't...

I'm still not sure I know this. I need to practice a bit more and write a few more questions to test myself.

We're finding that as well. I'm hoping we try something to help random conversations. We've talked about leaving a meeting open for people to randomly join.

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Could this be concurrency somehow? A SELECT should have an implicit transaction during which it runs, so I'm not sure why this changes things.

AFAIK, xp_fixeddrives hasn't been supported for some time. Other XPs are.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/system-stored-procedures/general-extended-stored-procedures-transact-sql?view=sql-server-ver15

dm_os_volume_stats is what I'd use.