2 minutes is too few in my opinion - it happens regularly that I do something else than typing / moving the mouse (even seeing a training video could...

One of the presenters at SQLSaturday Boston had a similar 2-minute auto-lock on his corporate laptop. It was amusing to see as it kept popping out of PowerPoint every...

Steve, please excuse me for being obtuse, but what did you mean by, "...  one thing I'd recommend is make a REPO to keep your code review checklists"?...

It should be ignored. This is because even if expired, in a DR situation, you need to be able to use old certs.

Ola's scripts will give you files. You can use PoSh to to restores in parallel with Start-Process or something similar, but you'd need a way to parse and script each...

replicate returns 8k

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/t-sql/functions/replicate-transact-sql?view=sql-server-ver16

I'll add one more. I have a customer that has some databases that don't need to be backed up (QA or similar purposes). If the db were lost, they'd recreate...

If you're trying to get started, one thing I'd recommend is make a REPO to keep your code review checklists. You can alter/change those as well with a PR and...

It's helpful if you give a create table and insert statements, so we understand the structure of the query.

A tally/numbers table can help you get the days of the month....

I lost track of this. I'll ping the author and ask if they will continue this.

No idea if this helps, but new releases: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/sql-server-blog/update-hotfixes-released-for-odbc-and-ole-db-drivers-for-sql/ba-p/3951162

For those Azure customers with zone-redundancy enabled, it would be interesting to know how much loss of availability they experienced. Theoretically, it should be been a couple minutes at...

I wonder what percentage of people find conferences a means to really establish friendships with people, as you describe Steve.  I have been to a handful of SQL Saturdays...

I never really went to conferences while working, but over the years had both regular and rare social situations with co-workers.  The most pleasant ones were when we...

Good basics, though what about scheduling classes multiple times?