Best of luck. I don't have a lot of hope for either Cowboys team. Mine or Dallas.

Contained Availabilty Groups do simplify the backup for those dbs: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/database-engine/availability-groups/windows/contained-availability-groups-overview?view=sql-server-ver17

I don't think this is more complex, but you do need a backup job for non-CAG databases and ignore...

resizing a db or removing/changing logs is interesting.

In general, we wouldn't want a human to do this directly, right? I'd want this run through a pipeline for a PR review...

Yep, the index data is gone, so no checking.

I tried a wiki years ago, but ended up sticking with text/html in most cases. Now I'd use markdown, but I'd put this in on an admin share. I try...

These books are published by authors and publishers for profit. We are linking to them as affialiates. There are links for Kindle in other countries for referrals, but we typically...

Ladies and Gents, new thread open. League invites should have been sent.

https://www.sqlservercentral.com/forums/topic/fantasy-football-2026

Me and Rodders, week 1!!!!!! It's on

For sure, looking at symptoms or effects and not causes, is a regular issue

Communication is hard. What do you want? I know it's not a simple thing to decide, and even " metrics not for a single point of time" isn't clear. Is...

Not a bad plan. I periodically send my passwords to one kid for safekeeping.

Agree with the ordering. If this is a single query that can be a TVF do that. Otherwise, you need to store the data somewhere and a temp table works...

I bet this is some poor design/testing on MS' part. They changed something and assumed people would have SSIS installed or Excel. The 32/64 bit thing is likely legacy in...

Smoke sucks. I hate working outside if we have it. I do have some light masks, but really need eye protection. It bothers my contacts.

I know in the old Redgate...

As a follow up, Larry, I'll add a new row. Notice the value is the same for avg.

Is it slower, perhaps. But what about this?