Usually my switch corrects most things, if you press it twice. No matter what the initial setting 😉

Pretty easy. Wasn't too creative here this year.

Use the Oh-En-Oh-Eff-Eff switch.

Thanks, it was pretty cool. About 700-800 people in the room.

Made all the stress the last couple weeks getting the demos set up and working worthwhile.

I thought of this while reading the Warstrider series (#4 I think), where the IT security guy had a VR sim of activity on the network, seeing different fish or...

kaj (4/1/2016)

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Really nice piece. I'll readily admit that I was thoroughly fooled right through the end. And that takes some doing. But I already knew that MySQL supports several different...

Cryponomicon is great. Anathem, not so much.

😛

Not the last one, but certainly one from the past.

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Service+Broker+(SSSB)/124152/

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/SQL+Server+2014/108318/

Weird, if you do something in the db, maybe add a table, does it fail?

Bucket list item. Made it on stage at major MS conference.

If the database is in standby, AFAIK, it's read only. No transactions can be run here.

djj is correct. Everything in SQL is a separate item. The login is separate from the user in a database. The permissions to objects are separate from both, as are...

This is interesting. I think it would be low priority compared to other sessions, but I would be intrigued. I think this might be a good one for the Pro-Dev...

According to Amazon's RDS docs, SSIS/RS/AS aren't on RDS. You need an EC2 or on-premise instance to run these: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/CHAP_SQLServer.html

I did see recently that Amazon was integrating AD with AWS...