Glad to see some additional testing. While I do think most people will run at the latest compat levels, I also know far too many people get hung up at...

Apologies, put the URL in the wrong field.

For log shipping. You need to keep logs if you want to restart, or reset the restore process for the dbs. What you do depends on what you want.

For AGs,...

Always good to post on Linked In. Lots of recruiters and others on there, including hiring managers. Since Twitters semi-implosion, seeing lots more activity on Linked In

It's not quite clear what is happening. Are systems from DC2 being shut down and physically moved or copied to a new place (DC3)?

If you don't shut down AG/Log shipping,...

For Jeff, because I was having fun...

Of course not. It never works the first time. Usually I need to unplug and replug something.

Tough cases make for bad laws.

The problem with the social media platforms is that they amplify stuff and that stuff might be extremely toxic.  Some idiot mouthing off in...

I find this court case fascinating because the specifics are whether Google actually put their thumb on the scale by having AI suggest content. I think section 230...

I don't have to implement data change capture very often, but when I do I put in right in the Proc making the update, either with the OUTPUT clause...

DevOps is about always looking to experiment, learn, and change your process. That would be the moving of bits from dev to prod (the process), or improving the code quality....

Adjusted the wording. The aim is to minimize parallelism for any query. Not to set the minimal parallelism, but minimize the number of cores being used, as this can be...

I can reword the question. I was getting to the point that while you can restore a SQL 2005 backup, you will not get compat level 90. This will get...

And it's a great skill to have when working with others

The whole 0 or 1 based thing seems incredibly annoying to me. Someone should have just stated everything is 0-based early on and demanded all languages stick to this.