That's interesting. I wonder if these reports are using your account as a proxy for some WMI call? I don't know, but asking MS if they can comment.

You want the SELECT and UPDATE in the same transaction. Otherwise, there is the chance that before you do the assignment, someone else has a chance to perform the select.

If...

As the main moderator here, please refrain from arguments over responses. The first reply did give you an easy hint, caveating this as "unlikely to be done often". If that...

If the VM isn't working for your workload, either you're a) extreme, or b) improperly set up.

The note I got back on this is that the login is a timed item, but it's device independent, so you might not log in from a device (browser/machine/etc) in...

MFA - Multi factor.

Having read only access is good, but having a read only account is hard. Then I have doubled my attack area, as well as increased the demand...

And suddenly today I got the first newsletter in my inbox since the new site went live. Maybe it was because I was selecting and deselecting the newsletters a...

We moved to a newer Askimet implementation with this change and maybe something there changed. It looks like a few rules around repeated stuff, lots of capitals, a few strange...

NM, opened it up here: https://www.sqlservercentral.com/forums/topic/availability-groups-vs-transactional-replication

Which forum? Depending on what you put in there, it's possible that it looked like SPAM. You have enough points that likely this was some mistake or maybe some link...

Strange to me, and I wish this was "REVOKE GRANT" or "REVOKE DENY", but it does make sense.

Happened to me as well. Just noticed as I've been on holiday for a few days and went back to check something on my laptop and wasn't logged in.

I thought...

We did used to have a "most replies" item in the list. Could this be something you used? Or maybe we never had the most popular working?

I have been slacking. Out of the country since end of May, so a little out of sorts. Work a day, off a few days, hard to keep track of...

I'm still torn on schema-on-read. While I do agree with you in some sense, and I think this will be the direction we go more in the future, I also...