Agreed. People struggle in two dimensions, 3 would be a mess, even with the Jetson's lanes.

We’re going through this exact scenario with our EV stations we installed at our moor just two years ago.  The Enel company that supports the Juicebox software is shutting...

This is the basic premise of the short story "Unauthorized Bread" by Cory Doctorow.  Although written to be an analogy for Printer cartridges, it stands up well as an...

The history cleanup task should just run (date changed) this:

EXECUTE msdb..sp_maintplan_delete_log null,null,'2024-10-23T11:19:52'

This is in msdb, and doesn't look like it deletes files, only table entries:

            
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When I buy a product I expect it to last for as long as I look after it and as long as wear and tear allows.  I think that...

This is the basic concept of being tethered to the Internet and I pay attention to it for all Internet-related things that I am interested in.

I have old Macs...

Hi Steve,

I completely agree on how companies ignore technical debt. Developers raise the issue and management ignores it because another checkbox on the sales flier is what marketing is...

Steve, if it were possible I'd give your editorial one billion likes! I work in state government. I've been a software engineer for a couple decades. I've never seen...

Sorry Steve, I don't have a recommendation for a sound bar, as we are still using our 30 year old Sony sound system, that just works.  No software to...

Sorry Steve, I don't have a recommendation for a sound bar, as we are still using our 30 year old Sony sound system, that just works.  No software to...

Underground tour is fantastic. There are likely some other night stuff, but I'm not much for that. There are cool museums if you have a free few hours. The museum...

It's an interesting article.

You mention the growth of the amount of memory, memory bandwidth has grown at the same pace. Memory bandwidth is crucial, especially for databases.

Also, as capacity...

People make or break many things.

So, the maint plan in general runs under the Agent account. Did you change that to an account with rights to the folder? The user running the plan doesn't matter,...

This table is written to by various backup processes, where they log what they do. As noted, potentially you have something doing some sort of snapshot that is recorded as...