What Johan said. You would need to track the plans across time for a proc to see if the same index is used or not used. Plans clear out of...

Praise and celebration can be big carrots. Assigning better work...

Firstly, what does a carrot look like to you?  A money-oriented person may gain motivation from the promise of a bonus.  A people-oriented person may gain motivation from the...

If you want to convert from a csv, python can help:

def detect_date_format(date_str):
    if re.match(r'^\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2}$', date_str):
        return 'YYYY-MM-DD'
...

Don't threaten the AIs: https://venturebeat.com/ai/anthropic-study-leading-ai-models-show-up-to-96-blackmail-rate-against-executives/

So much for Asimov's laws of robotics.

Interesting debate and technique. I tend to like looking for creative solutions that might not impact users. A new table, if this one isn't too active with changes, is a...

Likely some weird VS thing related to the shell.

I am glad in many ways that v21 uses the newer VS shell. Seems cleaner, though the different icon and slightly different...

I tend to use Brian's approach, doing an update then insert. One of the things that sometimes helps if it's  a lot of records is I'll add a bit col...

I tend to agree. I was surprised that some DBAs didn't want to compromise to 1 tool and then ad hoc queries as needed. The overhead worries me, especially if...

I keep thinking about OT as well. I think xEvents do a lot of what OTEL would want, though perhaps not without some overhead of the fields being collected.

I do...

It might be. I am not a huge fan of multiple instances, especially with trying to get RAM right, but if 4 instances vs 4 VMs is affected by licensing,...

It's returned in an order, but technically that can be changed:

SELECT value
FROM GENERATE_SERIES(1, 10) ORDER BY value desc;

It also means teamwork across dev, qa, ops, etc. is really important to solve problems efficiently.

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