You are welcome.

My daughter wants to become a DBA and is going to school for it now.  She tries to get me coffee mugs with either Star Wars or DBA themes. ...

I agree, Ray. PoSh was supposed to be logical and make more sense than Bash, etc. Instead, there are some silly items like this, and like -eq and -ne rather...

You are welcome and hope you have a happy holiday

Thanks, and Happy New Year, David. Almost time to knock...

Glad you liked it. This was interesting to me.

"..This was my biggest year, where I flew over 140,000 miles and spent nearly 90 nights away from home.."

That sounds like an opportunity to read more than handful of...

Hardly, though we do have Uber helicopters, so maybe we have flying cars.

They can play tricks in the engine to use less space in a way you cannot with row storage. The index itself can be smaller than a rowstore index.

Columnstore would work by tokenizing and limiting the repetition of values. A simple example is gender. Say we have 3 values (M, F, Other). If we had these stored as...

Thanks for the response. I agree SSMS isn't great, but I know where the sharp edges are and it works well. ADS feels limited to me, and semi-functional. It works...

Nothing to do with the question, nor the fact that it is Christmas:

Does anyone else find that the "Stay signed in" option has ceased to function over the past...

Merry Christmas, everyone. Hope you enjoyed it

Merry Christmas to everyone, Happy Holidays, and congrats to the top 3.

I'll get prizes out after Christmas.

I think Agent works really well in many cases. There are enterprise schedulers, and most cost money because they handle complex things. I agree, it's generally worked very well for...