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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...

Government is hard, as a raise often requires a promotion to a new level. Same advice and question. Can you find a way to get yourself pushed up another level?

I have SQL Server Management Studio 21.0.0+167.36109.1

I know there were some bugs early on in the SSMS v21 release. Some things were fixed quickly. I'd update to the latest, as...

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I'm still in. Trying to decide if I try to draft or let Yahoo do it's best

Install - https://git-scm.com/

This provides the Git system on your machine. Not to nitpick Brian, but each machine is really a server and you interact with it using a GUI...

My team has 230 SQL boxes that we support in our environment and only 8 of them are enterprise edition.  For us, outside of BI features there isn't anything...

My current company didn't have a DBA before I got there, so everything went in as Enterprise (smh). I've been slowly introducing Standard in where it would be more...

Would love to have a standard edition of developer version.  I've written queries that perform fantastic in development, but horrible in production only to find out the plan optimizer...

That's 2 of your April Fools' jokes that have turned out to be prescient!

I've been thinking about per-core licensing concerning software, not just SQL Server.  I understand that software...

All depends on the use case. One might work better than the other, or one might not work

Connect in SSMS and then select the security tab. Then expand logins, you should see something like:

Is your Windows login listed? For me, Aristotle\Steve is my local...

I would likely try to host it as a container, so I can easily start the process and run it. It is an executable, so you could just run is...