Maybe explain the use case here: what are you trying to achieve?

There are different ways to capture things.

Interesting, I'll have to remember that. The small stuff seems small, but it does wear you down

I forgot about that book. It was a a fun read.

I don't think there's a good way to measure the lifetime of an app. There are plenty that run for years with relatively few issues. Most keep getting upgraded, and...

Yep, always trusted connections (if you have a login of some sort) and optionally user/pwd auth.

I don't know a ton about Snowflake, but I know it has been used by a lot of customers. It can be $$$, but it works well and seems to...

For the free versions. For some of the paid ones, they don't use the chats for training, so the data isn't stored for long.

For the free ones, it is very...

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Can you set a proxy account? As noted above, I'd try to use an account here, not a user/pwd.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/system-stored-procedures/sp-xp-cmdshell-proxy-account-transact-sql?view=sql-server-ver17

Debugging this can be tricky. What I might do is set an xEvent on these tables and capture the updates occurring on the tables. Then looking back at the data,...

I completely forgot. Was tackling some chores around the ranch. I could have joined 🙁

Nix, Lamb, Wilson, WOrth, Jacobs, Njoku, I think I did all right.

I am mindful that if I did a 2nd job while employed by a company, I would be fired.  If a senior director on a massive salary did this,...

Thanks

Robin Sharma said, "Don't confuse activity with productivity. Many people are simply busy being busy." After all, you always get what you measure, and if managers are looking for...

Just a couple thoughts on this:

If you are working on a 'side hustle' on my time, you're fired so you will have more time.

If you walk into my office...